Granted it’s a logo from Canva and honestly I wish I was in the successful enough category to afford a professional designer

Today I’m like, I should really exit the grind set mindset and just vibe. Anyways, I’ve created a new company logo for my project and I’m writing the copy on the website I barely touch

Here I am like I ain’t got to wake up tomorrow at 5h for a very very very long day of work

I appreciate the end of this one, having the athletes up there vibing is where it needed to be

Those mascots are so cursed I’m glad this is the last time we have to suffer under their reign

Macron must be so anxious about this song. Last time he was in the same place they had to ban whistles because they hurt his feelings

I might be jaded but I am feeling this vibe for a closing ceremony

This is actually still better than the Olympic closing ceremony

But only with Visa because fuck you more ✌️🥰

The Paris 2024 closing ceremonies is basically “pay to watch some videos in Stade de France”

I had such grand ideas for today (manif) but then I didn’t sleep until 6h and this asshole woke me up promptly at 8h

Modern problems require modern solutions

Jessie Gender said something about AI art in her latest video, and honestly, I ran a couple tests in two AI slop generators. No matter how you engineer the prompt it is just unoriginal shit spewed out in a different order

Because I have psychotic firewall rules, I managed to accidentally block Bunny from connecting to the mmn.ca webserver so 90% of the site tanked as a result of not updating bunny’s ever changing IP list. Whoopsy doodles

Speaking of work, I absolutely forgot to do my monthly invoicing routine - upload proof that I sent the invoice and upload my timesheets

I also need to work on my Malt profile, I’m literally number one on a keyword and ain’t nobody sending offers, including Malt. Anyways, at least I can see a working future unlike this time last year

I’m also going to be the first to admit my long term business goal is a lofty idea - a profession that is generally seen as expendable and is very poorly paid, being turned into a cooperative where we equally share the wealth of our work. I’ll never be able to compete with Teleperformance 😬

So my .coop domain was approved, now I have to turn the mess of a professional website I currently have in to something classy that screams “I do professional good”. I’m fairly sure my contract will be extended at the end of the month, so it’s not like an immediate panic, just a long term panic

How did we miss that Uber got dropped hard with a massive GDPR fine triggered by our friends at CNIL and delivered by our new friends at AP ?

Schools are woke for not teaching about the mines and other stupid shit from another billionaire to be mocked

That of course doesn’t cover the state of “social cleaning”, the insane corporate police state brought to you by VISA, and some guy trying to install his own puppet government after losing two elections in a row. But you know something something art from the artists

I have to say, fuck the Olympics, but Paralympics as an atmosphere is much better. The couple next to me didn’t really know anything about wheelchair rugby when they walked in but were mega invested by the end of it. That’s cool

At least I got to keep the flag

Don’t ask how this happened

Jarod on the other hand insists on taking up half the bed or get buried under the blankets until it’s suffocatingly hot, for that is his ideal sleeping temperature

I’m starting to have a new relationship with Samy, he’s began a new routine of settling in on my pillow next to me and waiting to be tucked in under the covers. Because he’s a little independent man his front leg must be over the blanket

Chica you go for it, I’m here for this anthem now

I got socially pressured to stand up, my back hurts, I’m covered in sand, and it’s 23h 💩

I wonder if this flag will be the right way up 🤣

I’m not sure if it was intentional, but I see London, I see France, and I can see all the boxers underpants

Yeah he got booed hard there. Get fucked Macron and give us our fucking NFP Prime Minister ✌️

I’m just sat in front of a big TV in the dirt on the Champs Élysées like my house ain’t less than 500m from here and airconditioned

No tickets but better view than when I did 🤔

How did we collectively miss this ?

The indignity of having to buy smashed crisps because that’s the only 99cts snack my budget allows. I wish to done on the bones of the rich

I’m about to drop a blog post, a real one this time, and all I’m asking is don’t hate me for it Self Hosters for I hate myself enough as it is

Why the absolute fuck do I need to constantly opt-out of fucking commercial crawlers. You’re not a search engine, you inhale the internet to sell to companies to spy on people or inject BrAnDs in to my comments

Yesterday afternoon during work a mega headache took me out, I finished my shift in bed and promptly fell asleep as soon as I closed my laptop for the day. Woke up again three hours later, and yet today fine got the energy, went to the supermarket before work 🤷‍♂️

When Samy first came here he couldn’t jump, he wasn’t very good at being a cat, two years later with the help of Jarod he’s learned how to be extra

Also also Amazon : we only provide poorly dubbed versions of films that exist in VOST because fuck you give us more money 🤑

Amazon : fuck you we’re adding ads for a service you pay for at the end of August

Also Amazon : Jeff needs a new rocket so here are a bunch of unskippable ads now 🫶

“Retro 90s charm” sorry while I just vanish into dust

Since most of the tourists and Parisiens are gone, this afternoon turned into a strangely pleasant touristing vibe

It’s been at least a few hours since I last saw my cats and honestly it’s like their version of going to work, be outside and sleeping in boxes. Anybody hiring for a similar role ?

I love it when the UI just moves a thing I was clicking on and I end up clicking on something I didn’t want to, then go back to find my thing but I can’t because the UI is all fucked. I’m glad everybody makes their app like this ❤️

I locked in so hard to #CitiesSkylines that I basically forgot what time it was and I’m now suffering from not eating. Anyways now got the hungey shakes as I’m starting to cook my food 🫠

Because the real world is bullshit, today I will be working a new map in #CitiesSkylines and my city Betty White Heights will feature free and abundant public transport with taxes on large business and single family homes

Opening ceremony pushed the envelope, caused a lot of boring people to complain, and saw Aya Nakamura exit l’académie française with the garde républicaine after weeks of far right harassment. The closing one, empty promises and a bit of a let down

Forgetting to properly light the Paralympians while everyone leaves the stadium is peak insult

I forgot about Leo, traffic on the périf is a bitch like that

Snoop Dogg has been in Paris for this whole time and they can’t even put him on stage in the stadium, that let me remind you again, they’ve been selling tickets between 250€ and 1600€ for

This is unbelievably harsh and I certainly hope they’re about to burn the place down for this

LOL IMAGINE PAYING REAL MONEY AT STADE DE FRANCE TO BE HYPED UP ABOUT THIS CONCERT AND YOU JUST GOT TO WATCH IT ON TV LIKE A CLOWN

Of all the yee-haw Americana that they could have done for this handover, they went for literally none of it

What the actual fuck is happening with the audio tonight. Did they just give up?

Nice of the scientologists to let Tom stay up past his bed time

Are we actually having an ad break here

I love how the Olympic ceremony went from sending American right wing grifters into a wheezing fit to what I can only describe as boring ass shit for 250€/seat minimum (you can find those 8km near the top of the stadium)

I don’t know what it is but something about the properties of smoke seem to be a very hard concept for French television producers to understand

Let’s honour the volunteers who basically worked full time jobs for a multi billion euro business with everything other than a pay cheque 🥰

If this closing ceremony doesn’t include every trans person in France guillotining the billionaire class for abusing them as a “culture war”, can we really call it a success?

My landord who basically never responds to my emails has increased the price of my rent by the usual 33€/month to continue avoiding replying to my emails. I’m not saying all landlords are bastards but my current ones ain’t trying to dispute that

Oops I just realised I broke the fediverse for mmn.on.ca when I force redirect CloudFlonk to Bunny

By contrast, a friend and I went up to a bar in the 11ème because they were doing a huge deal for unlimited cocktails and frites. Nobody, not a single person outside of the JO zone. I’d genuinely love to see the figures on how fuck all we got from this as a city

I don’t even know what my autocorrect was doing here “and don’t even get me started at sitting in the living area while it’s time to be standing” it should read DOOR area but I’m guessing it’s updated with AI now

My rage posting is basically four weeks of this bullshit, low flying aircraft all day, random policies that have personally cost me 200€ of money I don’t have, and for what ? Some free tickets to stand in the rain and watch TV while a Gendarme stares at my phone ?

Bye bye JO don’t come back 🫶

They just spill out on to platforms not following instructions, blocking all the barriers with their giant baggage, and don’t even get me started at sitting in the living area while it’s time to be standing

Jesus fucking Christ on a pogo stick I’m glad that this is the end of this fucking nonsense today. I’m trying to get to the supermarket, I’m only one train in, and it has been hell

I don’t normally like to use French VOD sites, like is the name of the film Cocaine Bear or Sexy Bear. Five nights at Freddy’s no that’s Sexy Freddy

Now that I’m fucking furious again, I think I’ll write my blog post about the opening ceremony. Still in my drafts

It’s worth mentioning that I’m pretty white and if I’m not comfortable in this situation because the vibe ✨ might ✨ be wrong and they’ll fuck up my day. I can only imagine how bad it is for somebody darker than Italian dealing with this bullshit where they will absolutely fuck up your day

Other than my destination being a pain in the ass to get to and from, I just missed the earlier train because as I briskly flew through the gates I was greeted by two gendarmes in an empty station. ✨ Casual police state just staring at me ✨

It would absolutely not surprise me if the pick up in speed on 4G had something to do with a middle man connection run by Atos that was sniffing every single packet and sending it to Gégé himself to read

Unintentional JO benefit ? I’m doing my semi-regular battery draining by wrecking some unlimited 4G on my 4G wifi box. Anyways only two bar, -113dBm, and I’m not that far off what Free is struggling to supply over copper wire. It’s never been this quick

Samy crawled into the cupboard in the bedroom, as he normally does. I closed the door for him, as I normally do. He got up, went to let himself out and decided “nah” before going to sleep. Anyways I’m jealous because insomnia 🫶

Like I’m all cool with these athletes kicking it, and good on all of them. My beef is with the shitfest that is the half assed everything else brough to you by King Dumbfuck and his court of clowns with the literal police state on my doorstep

Also JO update. Got an email yesterday, apparently they’ve decided after fucking us all around, you no longer need a QR code to be inside a taxi and to pass a fictional border that was vaguely checked when the vibe was right. Imma need some refunds M. Nuñez

JO update. When I went to the supermarket yesterday they had totally redone the station near Parc des Princes. And by redone, I mean literally slapped stickers on the place so it didn’t look like shit

The part I enjoy about living the JO dream is all the heavily armed people just chillaxing in my neighborhood like we’re in the US or something

And Jarod farted, like really let some nasty cat food fart run wild

So I had a weird burst of insane motivation this afternoon. Anyways it ended in me changing the direction of my professional project and once the .coop verification takes place, the actual name of my activity

WE LITERALLY HAVE DRONES TO TAKE FUCKING VIDEO WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS UP THERE SERIOUSLY FUCK OFF HELICUNT

I swear to fucking god these Olympics assholes need to reel it in with this fucking helicopter over my fucking house

Also fuck ta trêve politique sale parasite 🖕

What suspiciously looked like a presidental motorcade just blew through here full volume. You’d think that held want to keep a lower profile as if we didn’t hate him enough at 23h

Unanticipated walk tonight. Paris is great when the tourists are rounded up in one place 🫶

At least I’m no longer hair stressed 🎉

Hair done, probably going to get a QTF for walking too fast through this fucking bullshit. Also unrelated probably, I’ve switched to a 2mg less snus so I might be somewhat nicotine stressed on top of JO stressed

I’m going to be so pissed after traipsing through all these cops, AI video surveillance, and god awful tourists to find it’s closed because August

I’m trying to hype myself up to go and get my haircut. Normally this would be a one hype deal, but the place is in the centre de l’enfer des Olympiques and quite frankly 😩

I say a lot of things about France, but while it is a chaotic place, I have to admit the efficency of Afnic to move a .fr domain in under 10 minutes can not be faulted

I thought I played Samy by hiding the pill in his wet food, turns out he played me to give him and Jarod more than normal. No problems swallowing that pill when he’s stuffed

Trying to feed Samy pills is literally the hardest thing ever, but here he is now able to open his mouth wide because the antibiotics and his dental work are doing the job

As if Samy didn’t hate me enough already, he has to have antibiotics for five days, two pills a day. The manual method I hurt him while trying to keep his head still, to make up for it I gave him pill laced meat, he figured it out the first two times, the last time he did not

It also doesn’t help that for Samy’s appointment he’s not allowed to eat this morning, which means Jarod can’t either until we get back later this morning. Jarod is not at all happy about this change in his life plan

Today I have a long day, get Samy up to the vet for the day, bring Jarod along for his shots, come back work all day, go back to get Samy. Normally should be an easy job but you see with the Olympics hell it could be a very very long experience

If you’re reading this on threads you might notice that some of my posts don’t make sense. That’s because it’s not interoperable with anything and the cross posting bot can’t figure out how to deal with images. Sorry not sorry, it’ll be fixed when it gets fixed 🤷‍♂️

Samy had a rough day at the vet, 45 minutes to move 2km, then he had a shot, and we discovered he gingivitis. He has to go back for a tooth removal and cleaning on Monday. Jarod is joining for shots

Oh look, another problem fixed by blocking a certain ASN

I’ve been chatting with friends about the Opening Ceremony - our brief run down is : fasho atmos, disconnected sections, far too long with no filler, not very French (minions ?), and chaotic. I’ll write a blog post about it, but seriously

Perfect weather for a perfect view 🤣

Got my free tickets and got in “visibility not guaranteed” might as well have been “fuck u lol”

I don’t know how to tell you this, but you’re not an “AI artist”, you’re a slop spewer

Fuck sake Mark fix your fucking shit

Also vibe

Current vibe

And through out all these donations and loans I’m giving to the 5ème République, Bruno Le Maire fucking lost 500m€ somehow (don’t even get me started on TVA)

At least I’m finally caught up, oh and the government already owe me for next year, I already paid my taxes in February but they’re still taking an interest free “pay when you feel” loan from my monthly existence payments

The irony of receiving the money I over paid to the government only to repay most of it back to another part of the government, while going broke paying for all the stuff I couldn’t because of the government is absolutely not lost on me today. At least the cats will be updated on their shots

There is no métro between us either, but honestly, taking Samy on one if there was would just be traumatising for him

Don’t even say the word BUS to me either, the line between here and the vet is no longer running for REASONS

Because I’m a sadist, I’ve booked the cats in to the vet for their shots during the Olympics before the vet is closed for the summer. I had to do it separately cos there is a possibility I could be walking these fuckers all the way there if I can’t get a taxi

Genuinely, going freelance and working with the Cooperative have really taught me to value my own work and my time. Having somebody else look you dead in the eye and say “are you really going to undersell yourself like that” and not because the Coop take a cut, but because they genuinely care

I should also note it’s a three part interview process with extra work, so obvs they’re not upfront about not paying for that time either. Again, go find an employee if you want to pull that shit, otherwise 30 min call is OK + CV + Portfolio take it, leave it, or pay for it

As seen on a Freelance job ad “A 30-minute video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager to get to know you, understand your career expectations”. Um, why are we talking about career expectations, I expect you to pay my invoices that’s it, that’s the deal go find an employee for that

When you block GAFAM from your website, suddenly it’s not so expensive to run 🤷‍♂️

DROP WHAT YOU’RE DOING TRAIN SIMWORLD 3 IS ON 90% DISCOUNT ON STEAM

Macron riding in his little military car cosplaying as a war time king with his failed government waiting for him is honestly not the kind of comedy I was expecting this 14 July 🇫🇷

Getting in to the weekend like

Once in #Bristol Gromits were a thing and I miss the simplicity of that

Yes, I’m making a breakfast pizza. What of it ?

“Unfortunately, we do not handle this type of structure [of freelancing]” - then your “platform for freelancers” is just a first-world sweatshop that thrives on the micro-entrepreneurisation of employment and should be hacked out of existence 🤷‍♂️

Had this great idea to do all the housework that has been outstanding since April. Anyways, freezer is defrosting and I seemingly forgot that means an open fridge door unattended and two cats. One of which will absolutely take this as an invite to dinner

Considering there is a high probability we’re going to descend into a fasho fuckfest triggered by neo liberal hubris tomorrow, I’m defrosting my freezer today. Get around to all those outstanding tasks while I can

Could this be a sign that the bourgeois are terrified of the monster they have created 🙄

Between Mastodon and Bluesky, I’ve never seen such a creative use of domain names

What I absolutely know what will happen is that I’ll get an offer for some long ass 80 hours a week trying to ride me for that price thinking I’m going to undercut other freelancers. I see the freelancers who do that, whether by need or by greed, and I don’t want to be painted with that brush

I don’t expect to pick up anything, but one or two little projects that would otherwise be priced out of my expertise works well for me financially but also ethically - the price matches what I’m able to offer in time and is still at a livable wage for me

This is to say I am super concious that my rate is substantially lower than the market rate on the basis that I only have one or two days available at best, if it’s a long term project I can only really touch in once every 7 days, and really I’m happy to offer to small businesses on these conditions

I’m trying to word very nicely on a professional site that I’m available for small projects for small business with a small budget as an extra, but if you’re a big business looking to fuck over other freelancers I will absolutely quote you market rates + 50% for the audacity of it all

Rishi is such a coward, he’s just hiding at home behind the telly. Can’t even face the outcome of his own stupid party’s actions in public

It’s almost time to see what new level of fuckery the UK is up to

Long story short, went to work but had to divert half way to the A&E. Not exactly the morning I anticipated but now I understand why people just pass out on the train. Less administrative work to get the pompiers to show up

So not only did they setup a way to DDoS the internet, they don’t even sanity check the URL input. Fucking kidding me

So checking my logs, blocking facebook resulted in 1,268 403 requests answered and a drop from 34GB in traffic to only 3,22 MB. Now it’s stopped going after one part of my site and moved on to trying to inject exploits in to WP which is beyond stupid bullshit. DNS blackhole it is

The only line I’m willing to wait 7 minutes for

Surprisingly nice outside today, I arrived at the right time to the supermarket, weather improved, and I have reasonably priced peas

I need to start getting ready to go to the supermarket because of course it closes early today, trying to balance getting enough sleep with capitalism is difficult. I wouldn’t have to do this if we just ate the rich already

I’m considering how much rent I can get out of this arrangement 🤑

I took a shower that turned in to a bath that turned in to nearly falling asleep in the bath that turned into “I found a microwave meal in my fridge so basically I don’t have to go anywhere today”

Like yeah I posted the same photo twice as a test, but there will be different content for each

I’m still working out a few things but one of the immediate changes I made was to split my pixelfed presence - @mmn@pixelfed.social for English posts and @kevin@pixelfed.fr for French in the spirit of each instance

Perfectly normal #cat for a perfectly normal #caturday

I set up a second micro.blog for my French posts to send things in the right place. I only have separate BlueSky and Nostr 🤮 accounts to be fair, the rest posts to the same Mastodon and Threats dot net account

Now that I go back in to the reports, to give you an idea of how much resources Facebook has been hijacking, this is a single day. Nearly four times as much as a new Plume instance connecting to mine and retrieving 24 years of post history to federate, an event that happens once a month

facebookexternalhit ddosing our webserver(s) with crazy amount of requests

I’ve discovered that Zuckbook has been leetching bandwith at an insane rate, can’t stop it with robots.txt so just had to get brutal with .htaccess. Took money out of my pocket because they can’t (or won’t) fix their shit or are just stealing shit online for AI

Jarod is being some next level pain in the ass right now. I’m sure he’s doing it intentionally because he didn’t get the rat he invested so much time into not catching

I think I figured out the whole sending things to Threads through Buffer. Just means that posts are made in bulk and two hours later but whatever

Jarod has located and cornered a rat, Samy is “helping” but he’s not exactly aware of how serious Jarod is with this event. I have never seen him so still, quiet, attentative, and ready to fuck some shit up

Before you ask, yes Jarod is missing a tooth. Nobody knows exactly when but that’s how he is

The cats have been inside all day, I don’t yet have the heart to bring them in from enjoying the heat.

I’m not sure if using IFTTT will work sending this post to Threads. Probably not but it’s worth a shot.

Tumblr keeps on crying how I’m using an ad blocker, maybe if my “For You” tab wasn’t full of AI generated sludge and low quality spam, I wouldn’t be using an ad blocker 🤷

Lol les flics sont hilarant - feu rouge grillé sans gyrophare car pourquoi pas, a vitesse super lent. C’est nous suivions la loi mais la loi fait n’importe quoi

Jarod is in his asshole mood, screaming about everything and nothing because having dry food is not in his life plan

I reactivated and setup a couple freelance site profiles, trying to see if I can find a small little extra mission or few I can do over the weekend to add a little bit of extra to my evenual pay packet but also something chill

Listen, it’s 22° outside and 30° inside. Forgive me for installing the clim this evening

Bristol, I offer my recommendations with love from New Zealand

POSIE FUCKING PARKER ON MY BALLOT IN PROGRESSIVE BRISTOL CENTRAL I JUST FUCKING CANNOT WITH THIS BULLSHIT AND WHATEVER THE FUCK MACRON IS DOING

I’m just on here trying to get cheap cat litter at the big hypermarché, not the Sunday Funday™ experience I signed up for

L10 is getting Olympics ready - contrôle between L8 and L10, 100 screaming kids, and trains every 10 minutes to extend this experience 🥰

FaUt AnTiCiPeR

One of my neighbours was arguing with somebody from the restaurant. Neither of them were impressed when I had to hold Jarod over the fence because he was screaming at them both for attention. He saw, he shut up, and he’s been chill ever since

If you’re not in to French politics, you should get into it. The conservative party leader has been thrown out, but not before locking himself in the office and screaming that he’s not fired after he got fired.

Last night I had a power blip, not enough to throw everything offline but just enough to restart the BBS machine it seems

Olympiques de merde - I was rejected even though my front door is metres away from the SILT and I can’t access 90% of my neighbourhood because it is behind this (literal) wall. Seriously

lol Autoshattic - makes a promise then doesn’t deliver BuSiNeSs ExPeRtZ

Reason I lost count as why to never take #Jetpack seriously ever again

FUCKING JO DE MERDE TOUT EST BLOQUÉ CAR CES FUCKING GAMES POUR LES RICHES BORDEL

The BBS Xchange banners stopped working, so I used the Internet Archive to locate a suitable replacement for my site’s banner area

It always amazes me how companies and people in general just don’t report known phishing domains to their registrars. Literally just stopped a current campaign in its tracks by being the only person to tell NameSilo.

I have made the most unintuitive phone IVR that has ever existed and I’m both proud and completely ashamed of what I’ve done

I went to check up on the library I used to get internet access in, went to their account on Elon’s Nazi Site to see some updates and the first replies are assholes who want to close libraries and other assholes calling them ChInA aSsEt. I closed the tab, that shit is toxic, tpl need to do better

Today I’m working on a gopherzine thing, not really sure what it is supposed to be but I like where I’m going with it.

I’m absolutely fucking done with #Jetpack, moved one of my sites, Jetpack broke. I deleted it, reinstalled it, tried three times, and all I get is “SoRrY u CaNt ViEw DiS pAgE” no reason just fucked. Also don’t tell me how to fix this shit, fuck Jetpack and fuck it’s whiney ads to upsell

Here is why it is a dumb fuck idea - ohmg lives on a different server to mmn.ca. The domain itself is run through BunnyCDN, so I can re-route requests through the subfolder to the server ohmg is on that runs on Yunohost. It works in theory, but will it work in practice ?

IMMA NEED SOME SOH-DA (fizzy drinks for the rest of us) BEFORE I DO THIS DUMBSHIT IDEA

OK IMMA TRY SOMETHING STUPID - moving the oh.mg site from a subdomain to a subfolder of mmn.ca #FamousLastWords

I’ve had a licence for the software that runs my photo album site for ages and every time I’m like “I need to keep my data mine and use my own photo album website that I paid for”, but repeating forever.

The last death of #ICQ signals the death entirely of the Internet. I’m sorry it’s all glue eating 5k1ptk1dd13 robots on this thing now

Absolutely not, get fucked

Ten human days later and CIRA has finally CIRA’d

uuuggghhh, I forgot to block fediverse.blog’s IP address and now it flooded my Plume instance with spam. As soon as that happened a bunch of crawlers also tried to farm it for SEO spam, well fuck them, I blocked all their URLs from displaying

See, I found it in a cupboard. Other than never being able to transfer images, I’m sure it still works too

Because I’m a content creator seeking content, I found a shonky photo from around early Y2K I took on a Watch Camera (which I still have)

Two of my #Plume instances found each other and now I have to block them from each other 😅

Success !

Also, if you’re interested on how to import posts to #Plume via the API, I wrote a guide which I had to refer to a couple times already today

Parabola is running the import, it’s got through a decade in half an hour. Here’s to hoping it can slide in with the next decade before my 60 minute limit

Case in point, from this post I was able to locate some of the 90s Swedish Dance era

Because I’m running through the old LJ archive for like the 19th time, while sanity checking the import I’m so happy that back in the day I set the #LJ app to autofill the music from #WinAmp. I’m finding all these songs I lived by (and why I have hearing issues today)

Another morning, another #Plume instance being launched blog.mmn.on.ca

Oh Zuckerbot, you’re so funny

LOL Best Olympics ever, they sent a fucking emergency alert to tell people to get a QR code to walk around www.threads.net/@maximeha…

I just checked out the latest update from Macron’s Personal Olympics and honestly, I’m basically in a prison for most of July. If it isn’t the QR code to exit, it’s the fucking AI cameras

And the trophy broke, a fitting tribute to the #EBU #esc #Eurovision

Fair play to them for wearing the Irish crown to perform #esc #eurovision

Another daring robbery from the Jury voting #esc #eurovision

Also because I sent that as they announced Ukraine, they are not the shitshow, that’s well deserved 🇺🇦 #esc #eurovisiob

How did Ireland only get 136 points but that shitshow got 300 ? #esc #eurovision

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS #esc #eurovision

Oh they found the boo filter button again, kind of #esc #eurovision

What the fuck is with the televote points #esc #eurovision

Now the real voting begins #esc #eurovision

Sounds like they forgot the booing filter again #esc

#Switzerland shouldn’t be celebrating just yet, the Jury vote is out of touch and the public have this great ability to derail that #esc

If the UK wins, Joanna Lumley needs to host it #esc #eurovision

Lol did they not expect him to be booed and forgot to audio wash that #esc #eurovision

The jury bullshit commences #esc

Lol what just happened, the video froze but still has live audio #esc

Not the headache, yeah this is actually alright #AUS #esc

#AUS is kind of alright, but that could be my headache talking #esc

Cette chanson, je n’aime pas 🤷 #FRA #esc

#CRO bookies favourite for a reason, and #GEO shows up to put out the fire #esc

#SLO is starting to grow on me, slowly #esc

#SWI dancing around on a satellite dish #esc

I’m having one of those brain exploding headaches as if I actually did anything relevant today. Probably lack of caffeine

Something something bland repeat #CYP #esc

#ARM Trumpet daddy needs more camera time #esc

#POR more like Bored-ugal #esc

Yay #FIN #esc

Bored on a rock #SER #esc

I have a headache and #ITA isn’t making it better #esc

Of course they ski #NOR #esc

I’m still impressed how they set up this performance, looks too professional for #esc #GBR

I’m just here for Pop Triga #GBR #esc

Ah yes, Greektok that managed to take up a place in the semi final #GRE #esc

That’s to say #LIT is techno twink and #LAT is whatever the opposite of that is, I guess middle age straight guy in a plastic abs suit #esc

I also confused #LIT for #LAT earlier, knowing people from both countries they find this unsurprising so I don’t feel bad #esc

Now for a bit of meh from #LAT #esc

#IRL jst keeps on getting better every time #esc

SORRY BUSY NOW HAVE TO WATCH THIS #IRL #esc

I make fun of Estonia a lot, but not for this. Their redemption arc #EST #esc

Bring on the strange #EST #esc

¡ Zorra ! ¡ Zorra ! ¡ Zorra ! #esc

I was mean to the geriatric #SPA entry last round, but it’s actually quite banging #esc

I can’t believe that was only an ad free segment, y’all with capitalism TV missed out #esc

#LAT going for twink techno, and that should be the new name for #esc

Not sure why my phone is posting ezc instead of esc but it happened

Unexpected ad break, guess it’s time for a slash #ezc

Lol I forgot #BEL didn’t make it through, bref, this is basically their entry too #LUX #esc

We could just save a bunch of time by having #FRA #LUX and #BEL perform the same variation of song at the same time #esc

Didn’t post during #UKR because it’s just an amazing song, #GER however I have all the time in the world here #esc

At least we get #SWE’s totally forgettable entry out of the way from the start #esc

What the feck is happening in Malmö ? www.france24.com/en/live-n… www.instagram.com/stories/b…

I tried to raise a complaint about how stupid this is, but you can’t complain unless you receive the package. Genius, we have no problems because nobody complains about having problems that we’re not doing the only job we’re here to do 🤡

Day two of La Poste unable to find La Poste and deliver my package to a post office operated by La Poste. But it’s ok, they’ll try doing the same thing again on Monday, third time is the charm I’m assured 💩

SMIC+ pour un billet 🖕

Just keeps on coming back worse and worse

We restart the mmn.ca process and hope for the best again. Ain’t no bureaucracy like Canadian bureaucracy

#Denmark and #SanMarino got robbed #esc

Cha cha cha cha #esc

Done much more better than the failed mexican wave on the Champs-Élysées in December #esc

#AUS #DEN #SAN #ARM #NET #EST #NOR all yes, maybe for #GEO, poubelle pour les autres #esc

If this doesn’t win, I don’t know what will #NET #esc

And violently Dutch is the choice #NET #esc

#NET could be quirky, could be violently Dutch #esc

#NOR forest witch vibes, that’s my retirement plan, vanish into the forests of Norway #esc

It’s got a start #NOR #esc

#NOR it’s either going to be a banger or just fizzle #esc

Aaaaand it’s not broughted #ITA #esc

That one time people thought #ITA was bringing the cocaine 80s, that vibe bring it #esc

I’m here for this #EST #esc

It’s a vibe alright #EST #esc

#EST had a fucking great song in 2020 but COVID got it cancelled. They need to bring that vibe #esc

I joked about #LUX and #BEL, but basically they’ve all just sent different versions of #FRA #esc

Other tiny France, show us #BEL #esc

#GEO everybody loves firefighters but I’m only 50 / 50 with this song #esc

#SAN isn’t exactly pulling an #IRL but you know, acceptable #esc

Take notes #FRA #SPA #esc

Geriatric Spanish couple, this should be a thing #SPA #esc

For a guy in a hoop wearing plastic abs, I kind of expected more movement #LAT #esc

I’ve always wanted to buy one of those for my cats #LAT #esc

Let’s go #LAT #esc

I video the for flutey trumpet daddy #ARM #esc

I have high hopes for beardy trumpet daddy #ARM #esc

Acceptance #DEN #esc

#DEN has some good build up, but she’ll be pulling sand out of everything for weeks from now #esc

You know they could have won with this 24 years ago #AUS #esc

At least it isn’t a power ballad #AUS #esc

It really is a hard call so far of which ten of these car crashes will make it through, assuming I don’t fall asleep #esc

Another classic #FRA song 😴 #esc

I should say #CZE but anyways I don’t know if it’s supposed to be the dull semi final but this is just not a whole lot of fun #esc

We are Domi got robbed that one time #CHE #esc

It’s differently different #esc

Let’s see if #SWI can come up with something not dull this year #esc

Oh TikTok references #GRE #esc

If Portugal can make it through then there is no stopping #ALB 😴 #esc

ni #MAL ni bon, it’s ok I guess #esc

Only two minutes to #esc, get your judgement on and let’s enjoy

Also managed to fuck up that last post too, being outdoors is hard work

I managed to fuck up taking a snus out of my mouth, ended up dropping it down my shirt and dribbling. In public no less

The Algorithm™ dropped two documentaries in my way today which are worth the time. Also fuck Regan

youtu.be/9I53vj6O7…

youtu.be/jCpf5vRrh…

I’m having a weird issue with posting to usenet, I’m not sure if this is a Leafnode thing (althought it is having some problems too) or a Wildcat! problem. I repointed the BBS to my ISP’s NNTP service so I lost access to some of the weirder newsgroups

“What’s your infra built on”

Also sweet internet, as I’m catching up on things, let me share with you the success of having my first freelancing invoice paid

Every so often I check on my account on Nostr to make sure something is working, and let me tell you, the timeline makes me reconsider if I just leave that crossposter broken

Samy has started this new habit of jumping on my laptop and scratching. Not an issue when it is closed, not a fucking great sound when its open

I also now made a few extra little changes on micro.blog to fix the speed of cross posting. This might be entirely psychological

If you were wondering after the last post when I say the BBS has been sucking electric from the wall for a very long time, let me introduce you to how I setup HTTP redirections on mmn.on.ca

CIRA moved mmn.ca over to PendingDelete so I guess I’ll find out what extra hoops I need to start jumping through soon enough

I think I managed to keep the activitypub account set to mmn.on.ca, but um, not so sure

After uncareful consideration, I’m about to move my micro.blog from mmn.on.ca over to a subdomain. Anyways if you’re following @kevin@mmn.on.ca on the fediverse, maybe unfollow that account cos it’s gonna break soon

There is no cloud, only an old computer that hasn’t yet exploded

Hmmm, I want to repoint mmn.on.ca over to the BBS server, but the problem is doing that will break a lot of things

I’m dealing with an angry Jarod, he’s being a next level dick today - screaming outside and biting - probably because he can’t play in the bins to look for the mice

What’s wrong with you Europe ? #esc

There must be a data analyst out there who can corilate the increased amount of man tiddies from the explusion of Russia from the #esc

Wait, I don’t get the voting blocks. France can’t vote this round but we can for the semi final with all of our neighbours, mainly Switzerland and Belgium #esc

Oh boy, somebody should have autotuned those last few seconds #esc

Also because I’m not in the voting block this run, I better see #UKR #CRO #FIN #ISL #IRL #AU in the finals or we’ll be having a chat #esc

#LUX oh yeah I forgot we can’t vote for our own country #esc

#LUX I’m sure FRA sent this song in before #esc

Let’s see what tiny France has to offer #esc

#POR 😴 #esc

#AU of this doesn’t make it to the finals we better start talking about Frexit again #esc

#AU (but not AUS because reasons) that neighbour that you never invited to the party but keeps up showing up anyways bringing the party to your humdrum meet up #esc

#AZE this guy needs more than a “feat” credit here, he’s doing all the heavy lifting for this song #esc

#AZE strange but not in the fun way #esc

#SWE she might be unforgettable but this song I’ve already forgot about #esc

#SWE just going for the Jury vote huh ? #esc

#MOL scraping in there with a violin, acceptable #esc

No sax, no thnx #MOL #esc

#MOL if this doesn’t have sax, I’m out #esc

And #FIN wins again, shut the party down and everybody just get to Helsinki #esc

#FIN they found the winning combination and Finland intends to absolutely go for it #esc

I DIDN’T LISTEN TO THIS ONE IN ADVANCE #FIN BETTER NOT FUCK THIS UP #esc

Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh #slo #esc #fuckmyneighboursiguess

Still waiting for the beat to drop here #SLO (w as fuck) #esc

#SLO better bring something new to the table this year #esc

I knew the price of heating in #GER was fucking crazy, but my guy that ain’t safe #esc

I feel as if the semi final shows aren’t putting a lot of effort in to the commercial breaks for us without ads #esc

#ISL a classic club banger, vibe #esc

Also if this doesn’t win, Eurovision lost its way #CRO #esc

#CRO I don’t know what’s in the water down there but I’d drink it #esc

#POL if Lady Gaga was really in to chess and from Krakow #esc

#UKR is coming out with some super impressive songs, but would it kill them to send us Verka again #esc

#GBR stole Ireland’s idea and went ultra queer #esc

#IRL is really going for it #esc

I’ve been in bed just living my life feeling a bit down that I’m not being productive like I planned today, but then again Samy is sleeping at my feet so voilà

Today is an in bed kind of day. Great part of being back in society is getting seasonal viruses 😷

I’m watching a YT gamer play the jankest game ever, but the Dev put a lot of effort in the world and lots of exploration options. None of which the dude is doing. Pure rudeness, explore FFS

I think I did a good job on creating a site for mmn.ca when it’s not in registry limbo

If you ever have a third level .ca and you want the second level .ca, just, um don’t. Pure chaos to get this done, contacts are all kinds of messy because it’s that old, and I’m not even sure CIRA are even home

Of the 5,507,870 Norwegians knocking about, not one of them thought to register nei.lol

In the end after hours of working on it, then getting randomly blocked from my own site, I managed to get the copied version of oh.mg running on the yunohost server. I’m still poking at it to make sure that it is production ready, and if it is then I’ll, um, put it in production

So so close, now I’m not sure of the next step here since this is a story that is 24 years in the making (and subject to extra checks by CIRA)

Lol, I’m going to call this project as a failure, everything is fucked - the content is triplicated, the media doubled, all the language pages are dicked to all hell, and absolutely nothing at all works. Pure shit, what an automattic fuck-up of epic standards

WP’s import tools are just painful. I’m trying to move oh.mg over to a self hosted instance using #yunohost and I’m currently suffering from reuploading the exports repeatedly to hope that it’ll eventually get everything

Has #Apple added some kind of AI bullshit to its autocorrect ?

Because it’s making some wild fucking choices on words that are both correct in spelling and in grammar

Proton Pass for Android forgetting all my passwords then taking an hour to redownload them is exactly what I’m looking for in a password manager

Oh look, firstname.randomcharacters has liked my post on Threads. Such valuable engagement from a totes not bot account

It would appear there is such thing as too much raclette. All of my TGTG paniers have had kilos of it, which means I’ve had raclette with literally every meal for the past two weeks. La bourgeoisie strikes again

And here we go, I had to trick Medium into creating an account with AppleID + Private Relay and this is exactly why I don’t want it to have my real email address I DO NOT CARE MEDIUM DOT COM

Anyways, Samy has taken up residence under the covers on the sofa which is not a usual thing for him. He requires his autonomy to escape, and being covered by things hinders his ability to vanish at speed

Oh yes, I also turned back on micro.blog to social.coop reposting - the fediverse experience is meh and I want to keep copies somewhere of what I regularly post. This is the same trick I use to be on BlueSky

Medium is a perfectly functional website that respects privacy and the user’s choices

Speaking of YouTube, Usagi Electric covers a lot of retro computing, that if I’m being honest is not my era or really my interest.

I still absolutely watch his videos to the end, the passion he has rubs off on the viewer even if it’s not your jam. Go watch

youtube.com/@UsagiEle…

I’m subscribed to an urban explorer YT channel because one of them is next level hot, content is ok.

Today the content is on fire - the hot one has some tight trousers on and there is a lot of junk in the wide shots

The motor of this métro sounds like a group of people howling at the state of their existence. Honestly, same train, same

Man just in front of the doors of the métro causally just downed an entire beer.

Honestly, I respect that

I’m having to do a shop of shame for all the important shit I forgot to buy at the same supermarket yesterday

Tumblr complaining that I use ad blockers and cries that I should pay it to have an ad free experience.

No, I’m sorry that you have shitty low quality advertisers and lackluster moderation for fake work from home ads.

Sounds like a fuck you problem

Look at me being adult person

I appear to be a real person again

KidPix never gets old archive.org/details/k…

Hey kid, u wanna make some pix then dynamite it ?

Irony of ironies, I get the modem working again after my Vonage service was forcefully cancelled

I naturally woke up at 4h, then unnaturally made the decision to remain in my warm bed covered in cats before waking up again at 8h

Woke up a bit late, but more normal hours

If you ever needed any more proof that UBI works, its that rich people fucking hate it

Related meme

Thankfully, I’m just numb to this feeling now, just another day that ends in Y so I’m over it already and it’s not going to drag me back into that dark place of the entire year of 2023

This time its a small thing - my Vonage account was closed due to non-payment, I lost a phone number from my childhood that I picked up by impossible chance back in 2016. It’s just a series of digits, yes, but that had value to me and it was torn from my fingers. Food or sentiment

Poverty and precarity is just a constant state of having things stolen from you with a feeling of unnecessary loss and helplessness because of a made up concept that only benefits a handful of people on this planet

I’m a hero 🤩

Got comfortable and warm to watch a video and then I ended up having a nap that has made me even more tired than I have ever been in my life 🤷

This I don’t mind so much, sleeping early evening and being up early morning - the same effect of the quiet time while also being able to participate in society

The main character of Sons of the Forest is Kelvin and there is no room for disagreement on this fact

Well this is a strange turn of events in my sleeping patterns, I woke up mid day on Saturday and then just went to sleep at a vaguely normal hour 🤷

Broken sleep again 💩

Hooray

The sleep drama is coming full circle with a hard reset day, since waking up yesterday at midday I’ve basically had a power nap to keep going until 20h. Right now I’m coherent, but when the sun goes down and I have to walk to the 6e, things will be, hem, interesting

Oh good

This would be Jarod’s current unmovable position

Jarod is in a mood tonight where he’s being clingy, which is nice, but street cat nice isn’t as pleasant as you’d hope. He’s clawed in to my body and bit me pretty hard, now he’s insisting on sleeping on me and becomes a 6kg dead weight when I need to move

My internet is having that ultra destabilised problem, so I’m on and off my regular VPN and VPN router that does hardcore ad blocking. uBlock Origin, meh, still basically raw dogging the internet

A whole pillow, a jacket, Samy sleeps in his comfort domain

I just had to translate a French word to find the English word, because I forgot what the word was in English, a language I’ve spoken fluently for over three decades 🙃

Pas d’augmentation du tarif à condition d’acheter ses billets à l’avance, mais pas plus de 30, ou de souscrire à une abonnements qui refuse tout IBAN autre que FR (néo-banques et résidents ayant un compte bancaire dans l’UE). Selon #IdFMobilité, il n’existe pas d’autre solution technique #FuckLesJO

Apparently this is too radical of an idea for Threats, I mean, Threads

I’m writing up my offering for the freelance / coop thing and I feel that this should be the norm - working collectively full time in a business should have equal share of the profits of that business and fucking fight me on that

I have a meeting with the coop in a couple hours, of course it’s raining so walking 90 minutes and arriving soaking wet isn’t an option, so exploitive pricing from RATP it is. At least I feel fresh, got my haircut yesterday because I needed it to happen not because I could afford for it to happen

I’ve pretty much finished Farscape and honestly, struggling to find a purpose

The super fucked up sleep schedule is back with a vengeance, great

Considering that Jarod isn’t exactly a 6ft man, I’m kind of shocked how he’s able to have not only spread out over 3/4 of the bed, but is also hogging all of the blankets. He also goes from 5kg to 495kg dead weight when I try to recover a couple of mm of duvet

Uuuuuuugggggggghhhhhhhhhh

1999 Ben Browder is still the hottest man in SciFi, fight me

I’m not dead, bref, I’ve been busy with this business thing and heading to the coop next week to ask some more pointed questions now that I have an idea what I’m doing. I’ve now got plans for Saturday, because la loi Darmanin, and I’ll do a blog post soon-ish

You’ll never guess who can’t sleep because his brains are full of ideas and motivation. I’ll give you a clue, it isn’t either of these two

YouTube has been pushing “mewing” at me for weeks, like really really really, pushing it. It’s far outside of my quirky retro / gaming / queer video essays / Canard Réfractaire I knew it was a plant like the far too regular attempts to go hard right. I just discovered what it is, and oh boy

The job market turns, ghosting is out, one click rejecting is back in. Nature is healing

You might wonder why I’ve spent all this time doing this, I will not be told what to do by some California Tech Bro who is trying to planned obsolescence FOMO me out of a perfectly serviceable laptop while fucking over my privacy

It is done - while the old Macbook can’t encrypt shit on iCloud, Cryptomator can. So the ugly solution is - Cryptomator Vault > iCloud Shared Folder > Remount on New MacBook > Paf encrypted shared documents folder for 99 european cents a month

To be able to encrypt my iCloud drive I had to delete my old Macbook that can’t update to Big Sur because MacOS already takes 95% of the drive space, I had to move it to another iCunt account. Can I share a folder between the two ? No, just crash

If I can move this an hour earlier, I’ll be in the good zone

I feel this right now. Instead of doing one big go (supermarket), I did a lot of shorter trips so it was deceptive until I got to bed

Drifting to 7h 🙃

Getting better at posting in both French and English

This morning, because I’m an idiot, I synchronised everything not having battery. My laptop, phone, and my old laptop is bugging out so maybe it too is out of battery (it’s been at 6% red for half an hour vs when it normally gets to red you have seconds to plug it in)

I’m considering when I will go up to the supermarket today, I certainly during the morning to get some of that calm in, maybe in the next hour

This is all the free labour I do to get #ghosted by a #recruiter

This is one I’ve had minimal investment on because I got the wibe from Glassdoor and the interview she was going to just ghost me. Multiply this by 1000 and the amount of unpaid work I’ve had to do for nothing is a full time job.

This isn’t good, the trend is getting wake up later go to sleep later. It’ll just end up being more of a problem now

🙃

Close enough

Job search is going great.

Also big up to @Firesphere@cloudisland.nz for creating this tool My Job Quest to keep track of applications, notes, and visualise the process

Sleep just get sleepin

Watching YouTubers play Lethal Company is my new kink

Waking up at 6h is not what I was aiming for 😞

I did not intend for this to happen, the food I bought will bring no joy, but this at least did

Unintended consequences of snow, the RATP site thinks it’s under attack and because of that the app doesn’t work

Vibe

10km round trip by foot to the supermarket. Wish me luck #fml

You’d never know this one sits in the window screaming to get outside when he’s spending most of his day doing this

Jarod has decided that I’m the best heat source today

I need to get around to modifying the Auntie Social reposting bot to stop sending my bookmarks as toots and skeets, and limit itself to status updates

Easy life for some

As far as sleeping patterns go, this isn’t as bad as it could be. Technical success ?

Decisions were indeed made

I’m debating if I spend another 10 hours working on my city in Cities Skylines

In my dream I had a yogurt drink and let me tell you how angry I was when I woke up and I didn’t have a yogurt drink

Vaguely human, only took weeks to get here

Somebody is trying to scam Tumblr users by lifting IG hot boys and impersonating them. Epic fail though because this is Tumblr and the amount of credited boy tiddies that are on there, means we know where the genuine account is

Hilariously, doing a check on the IPs of most of these spam comments, they’re originating from the wordpress.com platform. Basically, they can’t fix their own shit at the source (which I have to do self hosting) and quite frankly that is some clown ass shit right there 🤡

Ah AI bots writing #spam, excellent, what a future we exist in 🥰

Better, I woke up again at midnight but at least I managed to get to sleep again

How am I so bad in interviews, jésus christ, you’d think I’ve never had a job in my life

I’m always up at midnight, not just waking up but full on out of bed alert at the strike of midnight

Dobby has received doughnuts from the panier surprise from Franprix. 2024 sucks but at least it has doughnuts

Jarod has this way of going from being nice to being a problem

Pure rat brain now

Jarod is currently sat on my chest hunting the rat in the wall. I’m stuck under an immovable object. Send help

Fuck, I got bated twice in the same day by algorthms, first YouTube and the second by Facebook

I will never financially recover from, checks notes, trying not to freeze to death

Donations are always welcome and for the record it isn’t 30° in here, the flat is so poorly insulated and everything in this place is far from being energy efficient, but the rent keeps on going up anyways

Will somebody think of the landlords ? This CBC puff piece is almost comedy youtu.be/tuvb-ZmUy…

I also look forward to hiking up to the supermarket in a couple hours to get affordable cat food

I had six hours of sleep during the evening, I’m tired now and I want to sleep but I can’t sleep because of course that makes perfect sense. So instead of failing to not sleep in bed, I’m sat in bed watching TV typing shit in this text box

LiveJournal reminds me on this day with a hint of irony “It’s SNOWING!” from 2003 oh.mg/b/GY

I’m trying to give Samy time to explore and understand snow for cat science. He’s not so sure about this just yet

DS9 S3:E11 - they have such a quaint idea of what 2024 looks like

This sleep schedule has to stop

We’re currently not on speaking terms because while I was trying not to choke to death on my food, he was face deep in it. He’s been fed more than once today too

Today I received two phishing emails and one SEO spam email that sailed through the filters - phishing from a gmail account and an AWS IP address, and SEO spam from Microsoft. All these companies make email deliverability shit, yet they’re always guilty of the worst of it

The joy of one cat is only half of the joy of being the living bed for two cats

I’m early from the supermarket to my Phenix pick up. So I had a little rest near the Eiffel tower, and let me tell you how awful a lot of these people are

The streets might be empty, but the supermarket at 8h30 on a Saturday morning is heaving

I started to look up how everything is going to become absolute hell during the Olympics and I ain’t disapointed www.paris.fr/pages/per…

Jarod is very much doing his own thing now

Jarod has rat brain overdrive right now

I don’t think I can fully describe the danger an agile airborne post shit former street cat with rat brain can pose, but I’m pretty sure he can smell colours right now and he’s armed to the teeth

For the record this power move of leaving his turds in the open air is foiled by the automatic litter box or Samy’s OCD, which ever triggers first

Jarod normally doesn’t cover his poos, but this one he attempted to hide his shame with anything he could find and is currently bouncing off the walls to escape it

Got called a PD multiple times from one guy as I walked back from the shop and I should probably care more about that than I actually do.

Jarod has got rat brain because this old Parisien building has rats in the walls

Samy goes to bed and Jarod wakes up, they’re on a shift change

My cat isn’t normal. This is the coldest room in the house

Samy has been awake with me all night, I was hoping he’d be too tired to fight the brush, but I was wrong

Samy is transfixed with his dinner plate eyes looking through the door and I’m honestly now terrified the scratching in the walls isn’t rats

Amazon emailing me to tell me a 370MB update to my Kindle that brings “new features and security” is about as suspicious as one would expect. What kind of absolute bullshit are they going to unleash on this device I paid for, own content on, and is mine ?

When I got my Too Good To Go pack from Carrefour yesterday, they gave me kilos of veal which I mean from going to a position of having no meat in my diet to having 4kg of Chicken and an unsurmountable amount of veal is nothing to complain about. Going to need to do a Taste of Poverty recipe soon

Samy is discovering the concept of a fan and now I have a cat scientist

I still very much need a better way to repost things to the social networks though, I’m doing three of them by hand and Mastodon through Jetpack’s limited method (still not paying you pricks five bux a month for that 😘)

Now that I’m more awake, I’m starting to do things and write crap that has been on my mind for a while but I couldn’t get the mental functions to be able to say much more than dribble on my keyboard. I’ve also started to do some quick and dirty translations of parts of oh.mg

My sleep is so fucked right now I don’t even know if I’m awake or dead

Watching a NES Tetris player blow up on YouTube in real time, yesterday he was amazed by having 300 people on his stream, today he’s got 1,8k viewers. I look forward to tomorrow

Samy is just going to go where he wants to go

Macron a pris conseil auprès d’Elon Musk pour rebranding 🤡

I’m in that brain state of mind where I want to do everything but lack the brain ability to do anything but consume endless hours of YouTube

I have a referrer of docs.google.com in my web stats and I’m wondering what scammy Google Sheet am I on and what bullshit should I expect in the next few days

Jarod is screaming that he’s not outside like the door isn’t wide open.

I just found a really simple multi-language wordpress plugin and it seems my remaining of the year job will be working on the translated versions of oh.mg

This’ll be today’s vibe

It is worth noting I am very sober so not even a December thing

I appear to have lost the ability to speak and when I can force it out I can’t even words

I’d like to say I’m disapointed, but having to figure out another four days of food with nothing, more things going unpaid, and going from “I can go out for a nice little drink on NYE” to cancelling everything and eating a bag of lettiuce in the dark alone is about normal now

I was supposed to get some money today, I did not. I don’t think it’ll be coming before next week now and honestly, this year is just trying to be horrible right to the bitter end

I just want to build my island district and chill

Six reboots later and I manage to get in, this is absolutely fucking stupid

Because capitalism Cities Skylines won’t load any more on my laptop it seems. The launcher just hangs permanently. Every update removes me further from my purchase

Credit to Louise Fletcher for portraying the character so well, that 30 years on, I still have strong feelings of hatred towards Kai Winn 😅

I’m rewatching DS9, anyways, we got to the part where the long standing villain Kai Winn shows up

Another morning and the FN are invited on to Francetvinfo in a prime hour. We are severely fucked

I also plucked my Westfest 2011 pics (and video !) from Flickr - oh.mg/b/3V1

I love how MacOS puts a preview of a video right in the middle of the icon either forcing audio to spew out when clicking or just making it impossible to drag the file anywhere

Debating getting out of bed

Gone done put up the photos (including the ones I didn’t send) for the Live Blog yesterday over here oh.mg/b/3UU

The live blog was quite fun to do

LOOK AT SAMY, LOOK AT HIM NOW

Gonna do a live blog because I can and I will, should start around 18h oh.mg/b/3Tf

I have to get off my back side to walk 10km to the supermarket and honestly the mental effort to put on trousers, let alone open the door, is an impossible task

Samy joined me in bed, came for a little snuggle, then used me as a stable surface to jam his foot up so he could clean himself.

Rude

#capitalism breeds such innovation youtu.be/qUaD4u1b-…

The financial enshittification begins

Simple life - outside in a box

Samy gets the door open and a box outside for him this afternoon, for it is Christmas (and 12°)

I cut a copy of my LiveJournal posts to import in to micro.blog, better to have more than one version of that than none

Infomaniak called me twice at 8h30 on Christmas day to remind me to pay a bill and quite frankly I’ve left companies for less. Seriously

This is how #AWS responds to an X-ARF spam report including SSH intrusion attempts. The internet has blackholed providers for less, and yet we allow Bezos to run the world’s biggest botnet without a problem 🤷‍♂️

Went on LinkedIn to apply for a job, did that, and also unfollowed every employer and / or potential employer who fucked me around. CATHARTIC

He’s screaming because I’m out here with Samy and he isn’t outside.

The door is wide open 🙄

Jarod is awake, Jarod is screaming, and it is 6h on a Sunday morning thank you very much sir

Jarod has found himself somewhere warm and quiet to go sleep in. Obviously, I took the opportunity to let Samy outside so he can enjoy sitting out there in the dark without the risk of Jarod trying to climb the walls and scream at the neighbours

Fuck

Micro dosing sleep, clearly

Today’s Limited Success™ was using the server I set up with Proton Bridge for WordPress to use so that emails can be PGP encrypted in transit. Any particular need, probably not, but you never know

You wouldn’t think this is the same Jarod I had to pull off the fence while he screamed at me for stopping his escape attempt mere moments ago

Looks like today will be another one of those “only sleep is micro sleep” kind of day

After wandering off in annoyance, Jarod realised the bed is far more comfortable anyways

Samy decided to join Jarod on the cabinet, you’ll notice that Jarod isn’t there. He was mortally offended for ten minutes then left. Samy wins again

Vibe check so far

Did a thing, checking I didn’t break a thing

Samy is out in the flat chirping around, he waddled in to the bedroom with his little ball in his mouth looking rather proud of himself. If only life was that easy for all of us

Until I become a Wordpress / PHP guru, I don’t think I’ll get my Yeets concept to work. That’s why I’m focusing a bit on mmn.on.ca and micro.blog, not considering some existential digital existence change (again) 😅

The James Somerton now deleted non-apology video critiques are slowly becoming the entirety of my YT feed. Other than what he did, I think this is a good warning to never get on the wrong side of “the algorithm” and if you do, god can’t even help you

Vague success of the day, kind of figured out the Listmonk API, installed Matomo, worked on my micro.blog, and redirected mrman.net over to mmn.on.ca for reasons

and before anybody starts, I’d search for it (which I have) but search engines can’t find fuck all any more except more paid plugins or services with articles generated from click farms getting some of that sweet referral data

And no, I won’t be using Jetpack, for the exact same reasons they can jog right on. Firing data from software I pay to live on a server isn’t complex nor is it cost heavy, so why should I have to pay some middle man to do nothing but wants to charge me rent ?

Because everything is ultra enshittified now, I can’t seem to find a #WordPress Plugin that is FREE that can do a web hook outward when a post is created with a specific category. Zapier 50 bux a month, IFTTT can fuck right off even if it was a euro a year (but it’s not).

In the last 24 hours IFTTT changed Web Hooks from a free to a premium feature without warning. IFTTT can in fact, fuck right off with this.

I just discovered why my WP Backup plugin was taking forever to do anything and it’s because every WP Cron instruction guide is stolen from one dumb instruction guide that doesn’t tell you how to do it right 🙄

As I started to write my great success that was Yeets and tell you how I did the amazing thing of getting a little Microblogging thing on my actual blog (because fuck you that’s why), I was celebrating my success at it posting correctly over to Mastodon and Tumblr.

oh.mg/b/3SX

Tootin' from my #Newton

(Technically)

I had to use bleach on the toilet and because I do this rarely I forget the reason why I do this rarely is because Jarod gets high as balls off of it. He’s bouncing off the walls, quite literally

Time to get using Grocy again in anger

Jarod : I’m upset that my claws keep on getting stuck in fabrics

Also Jarod : I’ll fight you if you think I’ll let you trim them

18 hours is all it took for Threads to throw racism in to my feed, for the absolute first time it was in French. I follow mainly (99%) Spanish and English speakers, so getting it in French was unexpected and ultra specific

Samy is looking out the window like he wants to go outside, so I let him out, he had a good five minutes before he decided 1° was not his working temperature and came back. He’s now looking out of the window again

I setup my threads account because there are a few people who migrated there I follow. For the most part, Threads sucks, but there is only one thing I can say is a positive - automatic alt text - while not perfect is better than nothing and ish accurate. Obvs robbing data for AI “art”

I never quite understood why my phone outside on the terrace in the pitch black is always lit up like it’s midday. I just found out why when my outdoor cat cam reset. Infrared light, obviously 🥴

Hey #Hachette, #HarperCollins, #PenguinRandomHouse & #Wiley: Instead of suing libraries like #InternetArchive, just sell them ebooks they can own & preserve for the public. #SellDontSue

Jarod is currently screaming because he’s not allowed to climb through the restaurant window and that his feet are cold because it is winter

While Jarod is sleeping I thought I’d be nice and spend some time with Samy in the dark outside. I popped him out the door, went to organise my things to go out, and as soon as I pass through the door myself, I realise, I just pushed my cat out in to the rain like an asshole

I’ve had a couple days of paralysing dread that basically kept me in bed and awake all night. Right now, seem to be snapping out of it a bit because of some moderately good news (still not employed). All it takes is a small 1/3rd success

Of course I fucked up my Apache config and had a subdomain running as oh.mg and thus breaking everything for hours 🙃

BBS server is now called winserver which is a success, but what isn’t a success is that this renaming broke the modem for some reason and it won’t come back 🫡

and when I say vibe, I mean I moved house and it was shutdown for weeks in between

ARGH I’m having that fucking modem port not opening problem with the BBS again, it took months last time for the modem to vibe again

The whole email thing is internally working surprisingly well

Yes, I do run a mailing list, why do you ask ?

What goes up must come down and the algorithm loves a downer invidious.fdn.fr/watch

This stuff will never get old invidious.fdn.fr/watch

Very not great that the BBS lost all knowledge of the usenet server it is supposed to connect to

I also had to find another contact form anti-spam plugin, because the modern internet

At some point I need to get around to getting out of bed and out of the house to go find out what that recorded delivery is (I suspect it is a violent demand for money), then get my coins out in the shop

“The mobile underground” at one point pocket rectangles were novel web.archive.org/web/20010…

I’m already writing my survey response in my head, the kind that would make Karl Marx shead a tear

I’m not talking the smaller city shop either, the full big surface mega supermarket

Capitalism brings the best innovation - the Carrefour seems to be stocking up on full price own brand and brand name products while the discount versions get pushed off the shelf

Remind me again, why the mother fucker who sent water through my ceiling is being a fucking pain in the ass to do the bare minimum so I can continue doing all the work to repair his damage

Other than everything not going right today, I did do this right. Postfix header checks regex is actually a lot easier than I thought

Also, yes the BBS is still down. I’ve not got around to dealing with it between cutting the power, doing insurance shit, and having a mental breakdown.

To say I’m furious is an understatement

The guy who flooded my place earlier had his music up like he’s got a party happening. Some people just really want to go to A&E

Update - I did have a nuclear meltdown, it was in the post office trying to print the fucking constat (spoiler I couldn’t). It was very public and a collection of every single thing over the past 12 months focused exclusively at a printer that just wouldn’t but charged me money anyways

Getting to print this fucking contstat amiable dégât des eaux is going to put me in a grave I swear to fucking god

omg I just got in to it

Yeah this is going to be the trigger for a nuclear meltdown. Thanks asshole neighbour, merry fucking Christmas

Fuck, because I had to switch off the electric and it has been a long fucking time I can’t remember the password for the disk on my mail server. I might only be able to flash it 🙃

You know that thing that just might push you over the edge ? Let me present “I’m late on my insurance premiums and it’s raining in my house”

That is certainly an interesting method to, um, woo back advertisers to your (morally) bankrupt platform

9to5mac.com/2023/11/2…

Because job searching and ghosting is a thing, I set up a Marketing CRM to do all the leg work. I’m not above letting robots harass recruiters nor dropping trackers in their emails

I’m absolutely bricking it for the next electric bill, I’ve had to switch on the not-so-energy efficient radiator at the bare minimum to not freeze and this is the night I need to switch the hot water heater back on overnight

Samy has a bit of an update, if anything it is very good and partially will confuse his vet and say the poor bureaucrat who has to process the update

So I’m going to have to write my experience about this shitshow in both French and English, because I have a few hot political takes that might not translate well but still should be said

I’d live toot but I’d probably be sanctioned

So I’m at my thing after a 90 minute walk and let me tell you I have a blog post coming about this hilarity

I’ve started to try and recover some of the sites I made in the past and put the details on oh.mg, so far I got two with some basic details.

I do, however, need to remember the rest… www.oh.mg/moar/old-…

Remember when having a webcam in your house uploading every 5 minutes was a thing before surveillance capitalism ruined our fun ?

I’m asking again for #MutualAid, I’m getting to the freezer section of what food is left and it is getting depressing. My flat reeks of fish because that’s all I have left (no pasta, rice, or bred), via my bank is the fastest way 🙏

LOL I love how optimistic I was back in 2002, “savings” what a muppet 😂

I’m down to the dregs of the freezer, today’s was salty haddock with guacamole. If you’re vibing, consider dropping a few euro so I can buy something that doesn’t suck

Ok, I’ve just found the coolest personal webpage in existence

I love when this happens

Hey babe, the copaganda merch just dropped on the Black Friday deals

LiveJournal likes to send me things like “Remember what you wrote on this day, 22 Novembre, in the past” and today it picked a post from 2001

Best internet ever

Started to watch this to have some background sound, but then she got my attention. Worth watching youtu.be/ot6RZa0qy…

Somebody is desperately trying to connect to the BBS by phone and honestly my internet is next level fucked right now making that a challenge

Having been told for the absolute last fucking time “we’ve taken great care to read your application” and receiving a hollow form email rejecting me, I’ve started to inject the details of these recruiters in to a CRM that will harass them for actual feedback

Sleep schedule just doing whatever at this point

It’s pitch black in my room, warm under the covers, cats strewn about, and I am violently awake with stress about everything. ko-fi.com/kevinpoin…

My alter ego has written a little post on the OH.MG sus Tech blog that I just invented about the work I’m doing on the mail server

Yep, the blog.sus.fr server is very much dead. I only get a message “fan error” before it shuts down. Anyways it’s been a couple weeks since I procrastinated a solution, so imma just work on email routing instead

I forgot ProtonMail has the ability to schedule emails, so anyways that’s how I’m looking like a normal person sending various emails to recruiters on Monday

I also need to get out of bed and walk over to the supermarket ☹️

Today I need to really deal with the blog.sus.fr problem, until I can get the machine fixed I think I might just stick it back on Oracle cloud and pull my backups to re-instate it there

Ok I think I’ve done enough job shit today, I’m already on the edge of catatonic depression after the last few applications

Equally “you can’t apply to this job because LinkedIn decided that the vibe wasn’t right and won’t load on any browser” is also new

“Sorry you can’t have a job because we don’t know how the internet works” is a new one

I stumbled upon this film tonight. Weirdly lovely y mi español no este bueno so thank god for subtitles

Annoyingly in this process they demolished 2 weeks of wet food in a few days because they were so hungry from not topping up on the dry stuff over the day. Just a casual reminder, Jarod will eat the rubbish so this level of picky behaviour is unusual

The cats haven’t been eating their dry food so I assumed they needed to go to the vet because of a problem. Jarod started it and Samy joined his hunger strike in support. I discovered this before having to go broke at the vet by swapping dry food brands

I’ve had to shell out for a métro ticket because we have yet another everywhere closure for another fucking marathon. I wasted so much energy getting around it and it’s only 9h22

Overheating kernel panic and blog.sus.fr is down again

Keeping the Plume server from not switching off is becoming a bit of a drama, I might need to open it up and see if I can source a fan from a dead machine somewhere otherwise I’m up shit creek as I don’t really have the funds to buy decent food, let alone spare computer parts

I’ve gone full tilde sus.fr/~kevin/

So far my little idea isn’t panning out

What if, hear me out, I went from kevin.paris to a simple user directory on a little computer in my house. Would you still love me ?

My machine that runs blog.sus.fr seems to have a bit of a fan problem and will just switch itself off if it gets a bit warm :(

I’m getting fed up of all these water outages that are as a result of non-declared line work, can’t plan for them and you never know when it’ll come back. Just about to get in the shower as my lines go dry

I now know two things right now, that I’ll probably be awake for a long time and that I very very much still love that man and every relationship I’ve ever had or will have will never get close to how I feel about him

Good chat brain, good chat

And of course now I’m crying about that straight boy I loved in high school, because of course my brain would pitch in to this with a “we’ll you’re awake let’s revisit some trauma” 🥲

This would qualify as a full night sleep according to my body that is very much awake right now

One of my risqué tumblrs decided to go full MAGA and quite frankly I don’t go on Tumblr for shitty opinions when I’m only there to see pecs thank you

When picking the post that LiveJournal reminded me of, I skipped another one. But I did go find the photo gallery from the same date in 2010. Let me present the great times of Westfest 2010 pics.sus.fr/album/Wes…

It seems like I’m roaming and my phone has this weird idea considering that I haven’t roamed outside of my flat for a while (and it knows that)

Nothing more uplifting on a Sunday like a calendar reminder that it is time to explain to your Pôle Emploi conseiller that you’re an utter failure of a person a year after signing on 🥰

Semi-irregular #MutualAidRequest call to try and make my life not trash - Eur via Bunq GBP via Bunq USD via Stripe and Ko-fi (EUR) are all ways to help

I’ve spent three days watching a year or so of soap operas, because why not, anyways I’ve been starting a new project so not really been doing much on social media kevin.paris/projects/…

I put up a contact form on my website and I now immediately regret putting up a contact form on my website

Also apologies to everybody (who hasn’t already blocked me) for being such a downer on the timeline. I can’t promise it’ll get any better soon

Still in shock about the job considering it was so positive for weeks until it wasn’t and also the dread of exactly how I’m going to survive while my life crumbles around me and the lack of control I have with anything right now

That’s not even addressing the underlying system of if you can’t find a job you become worthless and fade out of society until you die or accept anything that pays absolutely nothing and you just die being busy while not being able to pay rent

I’ve been awake for nearly 24 hours, I’m tired but very very awake. I’m not sure what’ll take me out first, the damage this is doing to my body, the non-existent diet, or just the non-stop stress as my self worth crumbles. Arbitrary decisions based on short conversations is a bad system

Overqualified, not qualified, ghosting. I’m running out of ideas here, how the fuck am I supposed to get out of this situation

If anybody is feeling the vibe to get me a pizza to drown in the hopeless state of affairs that is my shitty life, most appreciated bunq.me/kcostello… bunq.me/kcostello…us bunq.me/kcostello…uk

I’m violently depressed about this, I just want to eat a fucking pizza in bed but all I got is pasta and fuck everything

“We don’t see you as a good fit for the role”. Anyways, I’m having an existential crisis, I have no other leads, and I’m not exactly sure how I can afford to be alive by the end of the year so yeah ko-fi.com/kevinpoin…

I’ve had no news yet 😞

I’m following a rabbit hole on my own blog and honestly it is fun ec.je/b/2zZ

oh and not just blog everything, also make sure it tells the internet archive when you do wordpress.org/plugins/l…

Just a reminder to blog everything all the time, this is me holding tickets to an opening of a now defunct restaurant

In 2013 I had a string of invites to openings of a new chinese takeaway, I documented them :

• Weston-super-Mare ec.je/b/2zX
• Swindon ô.lu/b/27

My Freebox has voice controls which never work because it doesn’t listen (good). Today however, Alexa decided to get involved and try to push me to connect my box to Amazon while I’m watching TV. No thanks rude ass capitalist spy

Since this timeline is shit, I’d like to be in the timeline where this had more than the pilot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_City_(1994_film)

I’ve not had the official convo, but I get the impression that I probably didn’t get the job. I won’t find out until Monday but obviously mega disapointed, overwhelming sense of dread, not in a great mood, serious lack of optimisim, etc etc blah blah blah whatever everything is 💩

It is looking like I’m going to probably have to beg online for change forever now so anyways give or don’t whatever everything sucks anyways ko-fi.com/kevinpoin… en.kevin.paris/donate/

You’ll never guess who didn’t sleep and its almost 5h

My references haven’t heard anything yet so I’m still no wiser to my success (or not) of the last round of interviews 🥲

I’m tired and would like to go to sleep, but of course I’ll probably be awake in bed all night because I’m waiting for employment news tomorrow

Samy has been good to me this evening, feeling low and the fluff ball cometh. Except now where he’s stolen both of my pillows

Guess who can’t sleep because reasons

I’m in that ultra self critical stage after an interview where I think I’ve done terrible and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Either it will be a positive response or I stuffed it up at the last moment 🥲

I love this new feature in Firefox where it decides it won’t go to a website I typed in. It vibe checks and is like “no, not today” then ceases any attempt to load it, not even an error

I’m starting to upload all my flickr photos to my self-hosted gallery, there is a bit of a timewarp feel to it starting from the early days kevin.paris/pics/albu…

I’m so glad that I installed Sonoma so now I can enjoy this feature where my wireless mouse is disabled randomly and I have to reboot to get my once functional OS to recognise it again 😍 #NewFeatures #ThanksTimApple

I got word back, final interviews are in - two and a half hours in one sitting next week. It’s going to be an interesting afternoon

It’s nearly 30° in my flat, I can’t sleep and I’ve had to turn on the air conditioning in October. October in Northern France.

Don’t want to jinx things, but I’m waiting for confirmation of a final step 🎊 May be out of funemployment soon 🤞

Last night I started a project on trying to get Delta Chat to work with ProtonMail for the lolz. Today it seems to be running rather well, the whole thing is held together with hopes and dreams so I’m impressed

My obnoxious neighbour has rats that scuttle around his place all night. The cats can hear them and Jarod in particular is out for a hunt

Not one to be paranoid but it seems that my ISP is routing my traffic through an IP address that isn’t my IP address, so this weird ass configuration thing could explain my bullshit connectivity

Thank you to the person who made a 50GBP donation 🙏

It was a nice surprise to wake up to after a quick nap. I’ve updated the goal on Ko-Fi

No fucking jokes I have to pass this again to get to and from the supermarket 💩

Which of course means I need to take the real fucking long way back dragging 10kg on my back by foot. And the runners just fucking rude and entitled in general

Just had to make a 2km walk around because my path to cross the Seine is closed so some bourgeoise cunts can have an audience for their jog. Every fucking Sunday

Another #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest ping, nothing has come through lately and I’ve accepted that when the fridge is empty, it is empty until November. I’ve got an interview next week that looks promising, so hopefully I’ll never need to ask again ko-fi.com/kevinpoin…

“I’m not bored, why do you ask ?”

thesims.kevin.paris

Uninstalling was a mistake, as is the absolute saturation of my connection right now as a result

I’ve done a fair bit of work on the Taste of Poverty website by bringing across all the recipes, taking more photos as I create new disasters, and starting to get a vibe. So anyways, that’s how I accidentally became a food blogger

I stumbled across this randomly fingerprint.garden

One of the cats let out the most rancid turd that they’re both in the litter trying to hide it as a team

Bump for the #MutualAidRequest, I’m down to my last 10€ now that needs to stretch for a little over a month. Yesterday I made a collection round from Too Good To Go and Phenix so I at least have a week or so worth of food for paying almost nothing ko-fi.com/kevinpoin…

I’ve got a paranoid feeling that I have bed bugs. The truth is I have something worse, cat litter in my sheets, lots and lots of bits of tracked in cat litter from the two boys

Calling out again for #MutualAidRequest for October, I didn’t make the Sept target and now I’m down to 40€ for the entire month. Nothing is paid except the rent and the final installment of the rental insurance - ko-fi.com/kevinpoin… #mutualaid #mutualaid2023

I have so much cool stuff from a decade ago, I used to write about any old shit. Why don’t I do that as much now ? I guess that was rhetorical since I kind of do through micro blogging but it isn’t really the same

Going on the Bristol Pound rabbit hole, I’ve found a few entries back in the archives. A couple good ones to start off with, Launch Day and Evening Discussion

Cloudflare is destroying the internet it claims to protect - web.archive.org/web/20231…

I can not stress how awesome this is www.colino.net/wordpress…

Earlier I was researching a potential employer on the down low. That was until I triggered an onboarding call where she noted how long I had an account with them and had to double check I accidentally didn’t trigger a duplicate payment from 2016 🥲

Side note I wasn’t intending to go outside today but since Too Good To Go finally had some packages from the large supermarket for dirt cheap with a great rating so I guess it’s a 10km roundtrip on foot for me

I’m hearing back about two jobs over the next two weeks and I hope that at least one of these will pan out, the last one was dead in the water en.journal.kevin.paris/b/1Y

Taxes, I’m going to get fucked by that one hard which is something I don’t need right now. I honestly don’t see a way I can afford to exist if I can’t get a job that doesn’t pay the minimum wage before the end of the month en.kevin.paris/donate/

For the electric I’m praying they’ll be appeased by a token payment and not shut me off before the trêve hivernale where they’re stuck with me until April 2024 and legally can’t.

£ bunq.me/kcostello… $ bunq.me/kcostello… Liberapay liberapay.com/ohmg/

Usual monthly post for assistance - I’m trying to figure out how to pay the electric, my phone, internet, food, you name it I’m already beyond the red since I was short of last months target. Bounced the tax bill too, so yeah concequences ko-fi.com/kevinpoin…

Cheesy 80s film and not leave bed ? Obvs

HOW THE ABSOLUTE FUCK ARE THERE STILL MOSQUITOS ALIVE IN OCTOBER

MacOS people, do I take this risk of bricking my laptop or are we all good on this one ?

Also I did the import from en.journal.kevin.paris over to blog.sus.fr now that I’ve been able to get the internet back on. Anyways, not sure how the electric is getting paid this month but one drama per day

I made a grave error. I lifted Samy up to see what’s on the other side of the fence and now he’s absolutely lost his brain there is more of this world he hasn’t yet sniffed. I’ve got a black fluff ball zipping around trying to comprehend this magic

Seriously ?

JFC, Samy (the mostly black cat) just scared the shit out of me when I went to the toilet. Just saw a shadow gliding around when I just left him in bed. Best part, he makes no noise, so the effect is more haunting

youtu.be/VKBYKddav…

I thought Phony Stark didn’t like people mentioning the bird name 🤷‍♂️

Almost 30° in October and everything is totes fine right ?

This was going to be a status update, then I had a rant en.journal.kevin.paris/2023/09/2…

lol worse, its ads and brexit because of course

Any particular reason a bunch of big name companies are sending me privacy policy updates ? Is there some kind of AI shit I need to know about ?

Semi-regular #MutualAid post about the current situation, I only made 41% of the €600 goal. While it all helps it still means I’m looking at a horrid October. I was 105€ down last month and equally this month because unemployment only pays days. If you can 🙏 ko-fi.com/kevinpoin…

This is an interesting new development in the sleeping pattern department

Spinning Circle TV is my favourite channel - 3 bars and -107dBm we’re in the “could do 20mbps if it felt like it” territory

It would appear that I’ve got to the time of day where SFR has decided to tank out its data network no matter how great reception the 4G box has

I also say annulé like it didn’t take 45 minutes for anybody to realise the prestataire didn’t show up

Annulé sur place, I do love making extra effort for nothing ❤️

The 12ème is the worst ème because there is literally nowhere to sit if you’re say half an hour early to the Pôle Emploi that opens no sooner than quarter past 9

J’ai fermé l’onglet, je ne peux pas être en colère si tôt le matin. Jupiter vit sur une autre planète et je le sais déjà

“Le chef de l’Etat a décidé de “se concentrer” sur la création d’emplois pour réduire la précarité.”, nous disons donc “Le chef de l’Etat a décidé de “se concentrer” sur la création d’emplois précaires.”

Je regrette déjà d’avoir lu cela www.francetvinfo.fr/politique…

I woke up at 5h to walk my ass over to the Pôle France au Travail by Macron and I swear to god they better not cancel this one too

In other news, I’ve been putting off going to the hypermarché since 7h this morning. At some point I will be forced to go

Felt cute, made a Wordpress en.journal.kevin.paris

I’m not one to be paranoid, but when three different connections (4G router, 4G mobile, fixed line internet) with two different providers are unbearably slow without a VPN, one starts to think that perhaps there might be some kind of scanning system you’re behind

I just found out the very hard way Tumblr will now only let you attach a domain that you buy from them to your Tumblr. They never mentioned this and it’s fucking shady.

Obvs can’t sleep because I just spent half an hour in the rain fixing the 4G box on to the window to get the most OK-ish signal (which is all I get here). Not even sure if it’ll be OK in a few hours because daylight scares the 4Gs or something

Internet just got cut off, now on 4G for a while F My poor-ass Life. This afternoon’s remote interview is going to be interesting. Usual links ko-fi.com/kevinpoin… kevin.paris/en/donate… to help make my life not suck

Always, and I can not stress this enough, ALWAYS, read the company’s Glassdoor page before you agree to an interview

In other news I have two interviews lined up now, as I got the “lol on a annulé” SMS from the Pôle, I also got an email from a company I applied to, um, I don’t know when but certainly not recently. Now I’m having to find decent clothes from my wardrobe that fit

If you cancel last minute with the Pôle emploi (France Travail™ by Macron), they’ll sanction the fuck out of you. If the Pôle emploi cancel on you while you’re on your way to the event you had a week notice for but they forgot to show up to, then you just get regular fucked by circulstance

There is a YouTube content creator that makes great stuff, but has a huge and repetitive watermark all over the screen that makes their videos unwatchable. All you see is watermark. Cut your nose off to spite your face kind of business

God always has the worst fans youtu.be/hz3ewboYp…

I’ve spent the last few months spending so little on food (8-10€ every week or so), that going to 17€ for not a lot of items and a few less days has scarred me a bit. I’m hoping that Tuesday’s interview will lead somewhere so I don’t have to exist like this for much longer

I’ve ate and I’m starting to regain my ability to be coherent. So, processed dinner not my greatest choice, but honestly I was just in a bit of a frenzy and hungry crazy - going for the fatty processed stuff that doesn’t require any weilding of knives or hand eye coordination. In the oven and eat

I’m struggling to put my thoughts (or lack there of more accurately) down, I’m going to eat and return to my senses before doing internet

In the interest of transparency, this is what I grabbed from Aldi. Not a great shop honestly and I over spent by 8€ as I wan’t really thinking straight. Left is treats 3,34€, middle is shit I ran out of ages ago 3,88€, and right dinner cheapest meat (6,99€), potatoes (1,89€), and sauce (1,29€)

Plus at this point I’m so brain dead my capacity to handle anything is hovering around “bingeing Mr Beast videos”

I’ve ended up going back to bed, neo liberal capitalism fatigues me

Super desperate #MutualAidRequest plea - this is all I have left until the end of the month, I’m currently on a diet of bread and water, I have the hunger shakes, no energy, brain fog, and next week I have an interview - bunq.me/kcostello… I’m desperate

I love how Bluesky implemented that great Twitter feature where the screen refreshes as you’re trying to read something or just as you click on a post to interact with it, but then you’ve clicked some random shit instead ❤️

Speaking of mild panic, I’m down to my last 7€. As in literally 7€ to live on until October, that doesn’t even remotely cover food let alone every bill hanging over my head. So I’m asking again for the #MutualAid train to try and make ends meet ko-fi.com/kevinpoin…

One of the cathartic things I’ve been not panicking to (when I really should) is my mildly hilarious / depressing blog “Taste of Poverty”. To pass the time I threw up a little website for it - kevin.paris/povertea/

I received a junk email about 10 minutes ago that actually fucking offended me, the audacity to send this WeBsItE dEsIgN crap AND be PASSIVE AGRESSIVE. Too far Denise, too fucking far

MacOS likes to complain that my disk is almost full constantly. Yes, I know, you’re supposed to not take 107GB of a 121GB drive for your own shit, and you’re also supposed to upload this to iCloud and delete the local copy for the above reason

My little blog server on the shelf has some attitude to just peace out and shutdown when it gets a bit warm. WE ALL CAN’T DO THAT SUSAN

I just evicted a spider, I don’t know what offended me about it the most - it’s size or that it didn’t contribute to the removal of any mosquitos. I wish it the best for it’s future endevours at its new location, the bin area outside

I figured out why Jarod was screaming at me all morning, he wanted his box outside. He demands comfort in the location of his choice and when he chooses it

#LiveJournal Remember what you wrote on this day, 9 Septembre, in the past (a late one)

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My TV did an update this morning, all my quick select favourites were replaced with upsell streaming services that I don’t want. All my radio channels, gone to try and hawk Disney+ and Canal+ VOD

I also considered the option of going through Champs de Mars to save time and effort m, but a bourgeoise 10km run had me walking 2km extra around it

Having to leave so early in the morning for a supermarket hike means I miss all the discounts. Other option is fry to death to go later ko-fi.com/kevinpoin…

“Let’s think of government as an industry, where countries are firms and citizens are customers!” he [Friedman] declared. Of all the libertarian bros, crypto libertarian bros are the worst www.theguardian.com/news/2021…

Because I’m still super far from scraping by this month, I’ve had to choose again between internet and food, so I expect my access to be cut off in a week, so I’m begging for support again to not go insane / find a job #mutualaid ko-fi.com/kevinpoin…

How long this might last, no idea, honestly, since I’m still back to the wall and I’ve received a couple rejections again over the past few days. I will however, milk this moment of positivity to sit outside with the cats ko-fi.com/kevinpoin… kevin.paris/en/donate…

I’m in a kind of upward peak after probably the last few months of non stop dark level depression from, like everything. I’ve been called back from a place about a job I applied for months back and in writing up my little presentation I got a boost of “yeah I’m fucking great”

TotalEnergies who made 246 565 307€ in 2022 lost 46,71€ I already paid them and is trying to demand the full amount (140€)+ bailiff costs from me, somebody begging for donations on the internet. Theft put simply but I have no recourse ko-fi.com/kevinpoin…

At least the cats are enjoying themselves

Motivation is in such a negative today that I can’t even do anything let alone commit to laying down on the couch watching TV. Silence on the job front still and still less than 50% from making it this month ko-fi.com/kevinpoin… kevin.paris/en/donate…

I’ve been putting off the great walk to the supermarket all day, mainly because its going to be 30° and honestly I’m going to have to strap 20kg of shit to my body and lug it back home in that heat

We should all be angry about the our current timeline not having that 1970s future aesthetic amongst other things

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Today not a great day, I intentionally overslept and the dread is still very much back. I missed my short window to hike up to the big supermarket too. I managed to get a bit of somewhere with the donations, but I’m still super far and back to dread ko-fi.com/kevinpoin…

It claims its overheating

Sep 1 20:41:12 kaja kernel: [2995794.251186] thermal thermal_zone0: critical temperature reached (128 C), shutting down Sep 1 20:41:12 kaja kernel: [2995794.254251] thermal thermal_zone0: critical temperature reached (128 C), shutting down

Very strange that my machine that runs blog.sus.fr decided to turn itself off, no crash, full on shutdown on its own accord

I have a sleep hangover today, woke up super early which isn’t bad. What isn’t great is that I had less than 3 hours sleep yesterday and didn’t fall asleep until after midnight, so hungover and underslept

Landlords : People are so mean to us, we’re just good people 🥺

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“I’m tired I should probably go to sleep”

Best I can do is a terrible nap

I had so little sleep my watch didn’t recognise it, so just having a very calm day. Just finished watching Jury Duty and quite frankly Ronald is absolutely adorable. I made a good viewing choice

The positioning of these action items are the dictionary definition of violence

I’ve been looking at ways to monitise (🤮) and I think my Taste of Poverty blog is where its at ko-fi.com/i/IX8X7OQ…

Until I monitise or get employed, if you’re able to help on Ko-fi or via kevin.paris/en/donate… I’d be forever grateful

#LiveJournal Remember what you wrote on this day, 28 Août, in the past

That time I used to cycle everywhere for fun and not requirement. The Bristol to Bath route wasn’t that bad actually, the Bath to Melksham, er, life threatening at best

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I was finally able to trim some of the fur on Samy’s paws. Now he’s got full grip on both back ones, partial on his left front, and none on his right front. Not sure how this will manifest when they play later and he’s running around

I just received a donation in GBP, I won’t mention names for privacy but thank you so much for your extremely generous support 🙏 I’ve updated the goal on the Ko-fi page to include this ko-fi.com/kevinpoin… ❤️

September begins and waits for nobody, clearly. If you can help I’d appreciate it, I’m still very far away from covering this let alone the starting electric and miles away from eating 🥲

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After I had my little meltdown, spent most of the day with the cats vaguely watching TV, then published a Taste of Poverty

If you’re inclined to donate :

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If you’d like to know more about Greatest Manager Ever Celia and her great work (maybe this should be on her LinkedIn page) have a read of this, now you know a name - blog.sus.fr/~/English…

I’m going to slide the laptop away before I say something that somebody else (who deserves everything they get) is going to fucking regret by exposing all their bullshit in public

Oh and the hilarious irony - I make “too much” to get assistance from a food bank but too little to actually buy food. Maybe mental breakdown wasn’t a fair assessment, more like life ending nuclear meltdown brought to you by capitalism and some bitch called Celia (get run over by a bus bbz xx)

“Guess I can eat once every other fortnight” this isn’t hyperbole, I literally am 600€ short already for September (thanks URSSAF) and I have no idea what the fuck I can sell at this point other than blowjobs at the side of the road or a fucking kidney or two

THIS IS FINE as I rock back and forth in a corner unable to sleep even after being awake for more than 24 hours with the overwhelming oppression of having to decide what minimum I need to exist I have to cut back on. Guess I can eat once every other fortnight

So anyways, don’t mind me, just going to have an absolute mental breakdown on the basis I can’t afford to exist, my rent went up, I have to pay the garant insurance and my taxes leaving me in such a negative I might actually die while getting rejected for every job ever 🥰

Lol I just got the electric bill and let me tell you I look forward to living in the days before we had electric, because I can’t afford it and quite frankly they’re going to cut me off for not being able to pay it

Another day in dystopian capitalism “hey thanks for applying to this job you’re qualified for and that you need to remain in a house. Anyways, we’ve decided to not talk to you because you don’t have arbitrary thing we never asked for in the job ad xoxo stay funemployed babe”

In related news, I’ve started to rewatch the original Indiana Jones films because reasons

I haven’t been able to sleep and I’m still very awake, so today is going to be quite interesting

I stand corrected, it is from the building. I had a smell of the electric cupboard and its being pulled in through the hole in the ceiling (I have an unintentional negative pressure in here) - not electrical fire stank either or over drawing electric to cause a fire

It transpires the smell may actually be the clim itself, somewhat chemical and not so much fire smell. Not entirely sure if this is one of those “passable” moments or if I should swap the units out

Something outside stinks and because my clip sucks in air from outside my house stinks inside

Je suis trop fatiguée pour réfléchir, mais pas assez pour avoir des idées géniales pour mon site web

I have a French and English account on a certain other network (not Xitter) and the difference between the two is like night and day - English feed is a lot of penises and the French one is all journalists

I still find it weird after months of being cut off the net and relegated to 4G hell at this point in the month, that my connection is still up because one of my friends got my payments to date

I switched #Pixelfed instances from my own (lol money) over to @kevin@pixelfed.fr

Firefox appears to have some kind of bug where if you leave a tab too long it will still display the content but I clicking on links does nothing

My sleep schedule switched to early mornings (which is great) so I should have left for the supermarket at 7h, instead I woke up at 10h and I won’t be leaving for another two hours when the temperature is going to be in the 30s instead of barely 20s 2/2

I’m having a lapse back into what I can only describe as deep depression where I just don’t want to wake up. This isn’t ideal as what actually happens is I suffer more concequences of this, like I’m going to fry walking to the supermarket 1/2

I was really enjoying the dream I was having, and with nothing else to do, I slept for 12 hours 🤷

Samy is living the #caturday life

Ugh it is a triathlon, obviously

I have no idea what special event is happening that the police helicopter is low flying around my place every morning from 8h, but we can all agree ACAB. Especially the flying pigs

My sleeping patterns are absolutely shanked again, so obvs I’m speed watching three series on this Apple TV+ free trial

I’ll file that next to “walking 10km to go buy 4€ of discount food because locally is unaffordable” embarrassment

Something moderately embarrassing about being selected contrôle caisse automatique with 4€ of discount brand items

What the fuck is wrong with the water in Silicone Valley ? Don’t answer that, it was rhetorical, I know perfectly well its addies mixed with cocaine and lead poisoning from a bad batch of bottled water

Sure, I’ll spend 15 minutes rehashing my CV because your site can’t parse shit only for you to ignore my application 🥰

Also added benefit is that you have all the time in the world to find new interesting films and watch them youtu.be/UvRHvHs6f…

The only good thing about being unemployed and ghosted for jobs is that I got a whole lot of spare time to be playing Cities Skylines for days on end

I like my new version personal website that Geocities puked up, especially when I talk shit about corpobots kevin.paris/en/corpob…

I did the 10km walk up to Carrefour earlier and my left leg still has not recovered. I didn’t even do my usual vanish in the woods thing for a couple hours, no idea why it is giving this attitude

Annoyingly I must go to the big super market again, not looking forward to hauling back cat litter to save 3€

““Without a response from the employer, the Labor Standards Unit cannot proceed with processing wage claims and has no other option but to close this investigation,” Cannon said in a statement to The Leaf-Chronicle.” - we tried nothing and it didn’t work lien.sus.fr/Rl3KN

Currently working on this monstrosity

I reiterate my point

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#LiveJournal Remember what you wrote on this day, 13 Août, in the past

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I saw this story crop up earlier on Mastodon, and honestly it is just wild - thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conve…

Au lieu de réduire les prix et de rendre les voyages en train plus abordables la SNCF permet désormais de payer en trois fois. Bienvenue dans l’enfer du capitalisme que nous avons laissé prospérer 👍

Warp 9 to the DILF quadrant

and I’m not even talking about Tom Paris, like 95% of the mens walking all over that place are fit, even all the alien men. Just everybody be hot in space

Star Trek Voyager really did have the market on the late 90s early 2000s hot men

gmail does not equal email, so fuck you.

Oopsie doopsies archive.ph/KjWsL

#LiveJournal Remember what you wrote on this day, 11 Août, in the past

Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga!

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Google has been sending a lot of policy change notifications and quite frankly the amount of evil that oozes is pungent

I got ChatGPT to hallucinate a story based on the rough notes of my dream, which in itself was also a halluncination so we’re cooking on gas. I forgot most of the dream as soon as I woke up, so this’ll suffice redacted.id/vB7t9

I am in a state of severe fatigue but also violently awake because a spider just tried to stroll up my nostril while I was nearing the point of sleep

Fucking corpo bots are the worst headline.com/legal/cra… user agent pretends to be Firefox

#LiveJournal Remember what you wrote on this day, 10 Août, in the past

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I did all this walking and of course I forgot to buy dishwashing liquid

Having changed browsers and not installed a plugin to block checkmarks on a certain letter site, I was immediately put off by the first three comments and closed the tab. Not worth it and no idea why anybody actively views that site

#LiveJournal Remember what you wrote on this day, 9 Août, in the past

Work hard for your employer and they will share the wealth 🙄

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lol I killed my Plume

client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe384/730: time, rocket_http, rocket_codegen, walkdir

Always use screen kids

Samy not content with not being a part of climbing on a rather important piece of software trauma going on, would also like to smash keys and see if it crashes out the build

Excellent, this is going wonderful

Even more so that Jarod is trying to climb all over my laptop while I’m doing this

I knew this was a real bad idea

yeah this is going to be an utter shitshow of epic varieties

Oh look I have to reinstall Rust cos it has to be a nightly or dev version

Oh this is painful, very very painful already. Rust just giving different versions based on the directory I’m in

error: failed to compile plume v0.7.3-dev (/home/plume/Plume), intermediate artifacts can be found at /home/plume/Plume/target

Caused by: package time-core v0.1.1 cannot be built because it requires rustc 1.65.0 or newer, while the currently active rustc version is 1.64.0-nightly

Well fuck

This will either go super easy or super painful

I’m trying to rebuild #Plume to use with Postgres, taken my backups and prayed

I also imagine this is a symptom of both more traffic and also the database growing in size. Each of these problems would of course be better managed with PostgreSQL

I think I need to really get back and revisit the #Plume database thing. I’ve discovered when I have write errors because SQLite does one thing at a time, I manage to break the whole post and it doesn’t show on the homepage.

A new #Plume server has discovered mine, but since I’m having a weird database issue it means when I try to post I risk breaking my entry. So just got to wait for it to get my 7k articles

Very dated technology as you can see

It still has Google+ installed and a load of notifications stored up from when I stopped using it

Cool cool, a tablet in perfect working order I just found was killed off and can be effectively bricked because capitalism

I really don’t understand Nostr

Ok so I think I did a thing right to add a seperate feed for my blog posts depending on the language

In celebration I made a page totally not making fun of Xlon Xusk oh.mg/x/ that is 100% hosted on my now not going to be disconnected internet

It hasn’t fully set in yet, but one of my friends covered my internet bill this month so I’m caught up again. Won’t need to suffer a 10-15 day disconnection again and I won’t have to pay a late charge

#LiveJournal Remember what you wrote on this day, 7 Août, in the past

An interesting one from 22 (!) years ago when I just rambled about my existence because the internet didn’t suck.

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We might have a mousey in the housey

Anyways, I’ve been putting off walking in to the forest again (and going to the cheaper hypermarché at the same time). Should probably get around to that before the hookening

Also, regular reminder - fuck capitalism and may the wealth horders get what they deserve

Another part of this crisis is that I like the idea of what I was doing with gemini, but the main issue here is that hosting from my house when my internet is terminated every month for 10-15 days is a problem. Not just for my sanity, but also for reliability

I’m having a life crisis, I’m not happy with any of my internet presence (again). I don’t know what I want or how I want it to be. I let a lot of my domains expire (lol poor) but I still have my special core ones and I want them to all be loved equally

#CloudFlare has arbitrarily decided to constantly check any request I make to a site that uses this blasphemy. The problem, it doesn’t work. Random fails or just hangs in an eternal loop of verification. No way out or recourse, just blocked from a large percentage of the ‘net

#LiveJournal Remember what you wrote on this day, 6 Août, in the past

“OMFG I DON’T EVEN OWN THAT BIT OF THE CAR AND IT’S RUINED”

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Who in their right mind would pay Quora for Quora answers ? Might as well have Yahoo! knocking at your door asking for change every time you read “Am I Pegnunt” on Yahoo! Answers. BSaaS - Bullshit as a Service economy is almost a comedy

Perhaps one day this rebrand will be complete or not, bankruptcy (moral and otherwise) comes at you fast

Quelle surprise youtube.com/shorts/rh…

Jarod is a bit weird, he enjoys chilling out with me and then suddenly realises he’s not very cat and will run away to be in one of his many boxes

This is where we are

Jarod is in grab at things mood. His target, my laptop keyboard

#LiveJournal Remember what you wrote on this day, 5 Août, in the past blog.sus.fr/~/English…

Proton Bridge seems to be wanting to download my entire 70GB mailbox on to my hard drive, which totally misses the point of unloading all that data to not my hard drive in the first place

Google removing their X-Complaints-To header in Groups USENET posts certainly does say more than enough about the level of evil they aspire to be

The creativity of the internet always amazes me xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx

I’m making a serious consideration if I switch my email client to Alpine

Yesterday, I went for a 10k walk to the only big (read : cheap) supermarket in the area so I didn’t have to pay 5€ for bog roll. My legs still hurt and I realised I forgot something, so I shant traverse la rue thanks

#LiveJournal Remember what you wrote on this day, 3 Août, in the past

Complaining about the early 2000s internet on the go situation

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The side effect of this is that Samy and I get to look forward to the nuclear turds that come after the meats eats

Jarod seems to be having issues eating his croquettes, his dental situation isn’t great from living on the streets (and he’ll eat rocks because he’s stupid). He’s lost weight so he’s getting meat every day in lieu of every other day to make sure he’s getting fed properly. He’s got no complaints

Of all the insults that could be thrown, I found a new one “We would like to get to know you better within this automated interview. This is the first step of our recruiting process. Following you will receive two questions. Please answer these questions by sending us a video.”

and because lol, I washed all my bedding yesterday evening and obviously it rained last night. Very much the one step forward, sixteen steps back vibe that I’m in

I’ve got to the point where waking up isn’t that important, so just do it whenever, getting ready not that important so just sit watching YouTube for hours until I’m disgusted with myself. Ex employer is still being a dick about what they owe me too, so another reason to avoid the world

It is 2023 so why does Windows need more than a day to extract a 2GB zip file my Macbook took seconds to do ?

A large percentage of the internet being behind CloudFlare is totally a great idea. Especially when it’s arbitrary “security check” breaks and won’t do shit

A half assed rebrand that never stops giving

It has been sat like that for over an hour, so yeah not exactly going well

Proton Drive for Windows seems to be struggling to get started

It has been over two months since I heard people calling themselves AI artists, and I’m still brutally offended by it

Hey babe the new Honest Government ad just dropped

I made a complaint against Uber to the CNIL like three years ago, and since a lot of people had the same idea, I just received a response. The CNIL is basically checking up if I still hate Uber or if they got around to not ignoring me

I can never make up my mind how I want to do things, but what I can make my mind up on is how tacky I want oh.mg to look 🥰

Nous vivons dans une réalité absurde où la majorité doit souffrir tandis qu’une petite minorité achète des babioles brillantes avec les richesses volées. Ces gens sont des parasites de notre société et de notre planète qui privatisent les richesses et socialisent les conséquences

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Fediverse Blogging for the Win I’m going to try moving my posting to [redacted identity] mainly on to Plume[1], currently I publish a static file with my writings to my Logarion[2] install then deploy it out to the servers to sit there and serve. While this is great and I can’t tell you how amazing it is to be able to move static files from place to place rather than trying to figure out if your bloatware PHP thing will work on a new web host without making it explode, or worse if it ever breaks trying to pull your writings out of it. But I quite like the Plume concept and the ability to make and receive comments on the fediverse without using some advertising hell like Disquis. Comments on Wordpress are horrid, mainly SPAM and you need to use yet another plugin to stop it, but so far there doesn’t seem to be a massively easy way to flood junk comments on to the fediverse (I say this with no irony knowing my federate timeline is mainly SPAM from fediverse.blog). The server seems to be fairly stable and PageKite is doing the job quite well, so I think it’s time to really give it a blast. My Logarion version[3] will continue to be updated, so don’t worry about that. In terms of the never ending project to get my old stuff somewhere[4], I’ve yet to figure out Plume’s API so if you know anyway to make that work let me know, otherwise I might upload everything to W8[5] or my WriteFreely instance[6]. => ift.tt/ASBYuwk [1] Plume => ift.tt/at6pHLy [2] Logarion => ift.tt/31AOGfg [3] Logarion version => ift.tt/qGz0nsZ [4] get my old stuff somewhere => w8.org [5] W8 => write.om.gay [6] WriteFreely instance

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=> ift.tt/VRnzQe3 Cover Image Please don’t judge the lack of dusting For a while now I’ve been moving a lot of my “data” back from the far reaches of the corporate internet where possible. It has been a long term change, I like self hosting, it’s something interesting to do and fun to get things to work. I stopped for a while since the new internet is basically just bots trying to wreck what they can, harvest data, or gleefully sent off with compromised credentials to steal. However, I’ve got quite a fair bit better at locking down the servers and the network. Since the proliferation of utter shitfuckery (2016) I’ve moved my digital life over to hosts in more stable countries or used trusted hosts, then gradually started moving things back on to machines at home. During the Eternal Lockdowns(TM) fully rebooted this project and now with the farce the social networks and their glorious leaders living in their own plain of existence (plus the occasional leak of how the companies are being run) I was able to kick it up a gear. Lately I’ve joined up also using cooperative external hosts like Ouvaton, Nubo, and L’Autre Net for things I don’t have the capcity to do myself. Over the past month I was able to rehome => photos.om.gay Photo Hosting => w8.org Microblogging => blog.om.gay Blogging => om.gay Email + Web => gemini://oh.mg Gemini => gopher://oh.mg Gopher Some of these things hosted on one of the machines in the cover image, which isn’t bad going for an ADSL connection. For the moment, still getting back on the ropes with Plume (managed to acquire some not so great federated SPAM / instances I’ve blocked), working out how (and where) I repatriate my LiveJournal entries, and just vibing.

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I have been reconsidering moving my little archive back on to a shelf in my house, you know, modern economy problems and all of that. => /redacted/bas8dp.gmi I wrote a thing a while back about never being technically happy I’m still using Ouvaton for a few things, I still very much believe in that project, but I feel some of my use cases can be a little too out of the box for their platform and that I’m taking a bit too much of their time which is limited. I also have a bit of security conciousness to the New Internet(TM) and the nightmare an unpatched server running scripts can expose you to. I worked out a solution for a more self-contained hosting platform which will at least keep itself updated (you might be able to figure out which one if you poke around). Thankfully, the site is really low key usage and mainly static which works perfectly for my shit ADSL line. I’ve also been able to re-organise the internal mail server (technically more of a mail flinger) to cooperate with the new set-up. I did have to go back to the relay thing, but now my over all change to my inbound email is mainly encrypted and email addresses munged before it arrives to the external MX. I have also restarted hosting gemini content internally, which means I can start using the root level of my domains (no more www.oh.mg needed) and the domains that aren’t used for non-web reasons, unfortunately, get to go back on CloudFlare to knock down the server’s exposure to non-filtered channels. In terms of the om.gay domain I’ve really worked the DNS on that hard, the geo-DNS has been used to the max. Certain countries known for not so great laws or an abundance of bots are now redirected to a professional webhost, with for the most part, a nearly identical copy of the site. Either be it on the root or the www subdomain, I decided that those places aren’t that valuable for gemini or gopher content delivery. The www subdomain is still an option, I’m aware that the ping for this server can be real bad the further away you get, even within Europe it can be pretty bad. The CDN is presented for anywhere outside of Europe and if you’re within and have a shitty connection here, let me know where you’re based and I can do some country specific changes. The great thing about not being funnelled through the CDN is that updates are more live.

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I’ve been meaning to properly break this into a proper entry, but I have a feeling that I won’t have the time to do it. So I present you the raw notes from when I woke up from the fever dream that was Christian Parker Theatre. Christian Parker Theatre dream - alien running around, somebody driving a bubble, people running around in exaggerated 80s disco suits watching the chaos unfurl making snide comments like “that’s not how spoons work” 80s people wearing McHammer style clothes but solid kind of like paper-mache or something you’d see on a toy (shoulders and chest huge) A game apparently, goal is to run over the alien in the bubble and then it farts Alien screams Christian Parker Theatre every so often, thus the name

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My cat isn’t normal

That subject is quite frankly the best of Vaguebooking I can do, but fear not it’s on a purely technical level. When I started OH.MG I wanted to create a nice little archive of things and I did that, then I decided to test out my l337 h4x0r skillz by self hosting, creating my own little CDN, and then finally going wild with an actual CDN. Eventually I created a monster, my deploy script is HUGE and takes forever to push anything out, even the most minor of creations, and the cost, holy shit bags, the pouvoir d’achat is not great right now and running that many hosting accounts is not at all cheap. I’m fairly certain I wrote that exact line before, but I can’t be farked to find where I did. Although it is safe to say, I learned shit since that post, so perhaps we leave that to rest. Anyways, I wasn’t happy with my creation, it was hard to deal with, confusing, trying to deal with the pure mess that was in the backend and it drove me mental. So I restarted from almost scratch that required me to have a hard think and reflect on what I was doing. Back in January, I got hyper obessed with registering om.gay, sometimes I get these flashes of not very clear thinking that won’t go away and always come with instant regret afterwards. Considering that om.gay is quite the premium name, it was dedication on my part to push through the checkout, but the name spoke to me. Now we find ourselves here in August and om.gay really has not been used, it’s there for Gemini, mostly mirrored oh.mg and certainly not living it’s best life here. I’ve been hesitant to use it more, cos it’s kind of weird effectively coming out all the time to random strangers (look at me assuming that the majority of my visitors aren’t bots) when I give out my website or email address. I got over that, fuck it, YOLO. That’s great since .gay has DNSSEC and it actually looks cool like OH.MG. Does this mean I fell out of love with OH.MG ? No, of course not, I’m still using it but in a less obvious way. OH.MG got very complicated to manage because it’s locked in to a lot of technical things, in grained in to my internal network, and all kinds of nerd shit. That’s what made managing the web presence on OH.MG super complex, so now it’s redirecting web to om.gay. Getting back on track with this entry, om.gay is the web and gemini archive for me, it makes more “branding” sense, and within that the entire archive has been minimised in to as few directories as possible. Much more easy to handle, more clear, no crazy ass edge rules to put plasters on the monster to keep it churning. I also put a pretty picture on the frontpage. Go me.

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I went too far and I got overwhelmed

After doing a lot of hacking around I’ve almost completed my OH.MG move. Just waiting on the SSL cert to be dropped on the main server (you’ll notice this if you’re in Europe), hashed up the GeoDNS to easy up the need for a CDN in certain places, and the content

I, of course, did all my work in an all night frenzy that lasted until I passed out at 6h. You can really tell what parts got closer to that hour 😅

I’m waiting for my host to install the domain cert (manual job) so if you’re visiting www.om.gay from within Europe you’ll get errors, everywhere else, you’ll get file errors until I rebuild entirely from the archive

Last night I decided to fully redevelop my site from the ground up. I’ve gone full hog, change to the structure, colour theme, and more importantly, I’ve adapted the GeoDNS to use the CDN only when necessary / provide different content in certain countries

UK politics at this point is a tragically hilarious shuffle of out of touch posh clowns

Incidentally, Total Energies who not long ago emailed me to say that my tariff was no longer commercially viable are now reporting record profits

If you didn’t think it was time to eat the billionaire class, it is, the energy companies are ripping us off, the landlords are spiking up rents because they can, and multimillion euro companies are destroying the planet

I’ve been rethinking what I’m doing online and how I’m doing it, this has been going on for a while for other reasons : => /redacted/gjb2df.gmi Entry “Changes to the System” Recently I’ve started using a CDN service based in Slovenia, the price isn’t too bad for what I’m doing so it means I can focus less on perfectly planting a host that for the most part is accessible from most places (mainly being America). The CDN costs a few cents a month to give a bit of a boost to the delivery speed and managing some of the bot problems. Following this up that I’ve been looking for a better place to keep my data, and I’ve started to come across a rather large network of cooperative hosts. I’m a member of Nubo(1) (based in Belgium) who I’m looking at potentially to move my email (still not exactly sure) to and more close to home a web host called Ouvaton(2) (based in France). I had a bit of fun setting up the multiple hosts, but in general I’m spending far too much money on hosting that I don’t really need and use. Not only that considering the nightmare of climate hell we’re in, I don’t even want to know about the CO2 all this is adding. The benefits to me here are that I can drop a lot of financial obligation for a website that is basically static and that I can be more involved in the organisation where I keep my data. Over the weekend, I’ve moved all the files over to Ouvaton and repointed the CDN. There are still a few parts that are on the other hosts which I need to start spinning down / repointing back to Ouvaton. As for email, I’m still working that out, for the most part between how much I’m using Simplelogin my mailbox is encrypted. The only thing I’m testing is filtering and deliverability from simplelogin to the new host. I may even just keep it with mailbox.org and Proton. => nubo.coop/fr/ (1) Nubo => ouvaton.coop (2) Ouvaton

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Cats - always photogenic

Because I fell asleep on the sofa all day, I’m now getting around to moving OH.MG over to Ouvaton.coop – La Coopérative d’hébergement numérique

I’ve been in the office all week and the cats have been stuck inside for a while. This weekend’s home project so they can frollick outside is moving what I can on OH.MG to cooperative run services (web hosting / email)

For the last couple days I’ve been having this weird obsessive dream about a domain name (it’s already taken) and I genuinely can’t explain why it’s woken me up at 5h30 this morning

They’re doing their own thing and yes, Jarod is sleeping in their toy box

Jarod is getting caught on the sofa again, of course trying to trim 1mm of claw to fix this has turned into a drama. We do this every 3-4 weeks, results are always the same

I have two things happening today - Samy seems to have this game of trying to stick his backside in my face and I’m looking at OH.MG considering what changes I want to make

I’ve got a whole god damn bag of mice, various colours, but if blue mouse isn’t there, we have a problem. He’s also a bit upset all his favourite balls are missing (he hid them all)

I just had to crawl around on the floor to try and find Samy’s blue mouse. He picked this toy up as soon as it came out of the package, every since it’s become a family heirloom

In other news, my electric went up three times in the last two months, but am I here with the Aircon on 24/7, you fuckin' bet

Also, here is Jarod’s fat face

I technically quit smoking, just don’t ask me how many of these I’ve got through

Update. He’s rolled out of bed to drop a turd, anyways guess I’ll be haunted by thoughts all night and the stench from the litter 👍

Having one of those shitty nights, brain focusing on the 💩, cat curled up on bed with me. Trying to focus on his soft fur (+ he’s taken half the bed) and purge my mind. Cats solve everything

Anyways, I obvs had to dispose of the thing but at least it’s looking like this small part of Paris won’t be seeing the usual summer time rat realness

My cats are pretty hilarious sometimes, the older one got the younger one to flush out a rat for him. Then he took off with it after the younger one basically did all the leg work

Well don’t I feel old

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This raises more questions than answers

If you didn’t feel old, you will now - Sailor Moon at 30: Looking Back at the Iconic Series

I finally got all my sites out of one text repository. Tonight, two years late, I work on getting the Gopherhole mirroring the available content in .txt form

I’ve started to upload my photo albums to a self-hosted photo system.

Well wasn’t Eurovision a bit wild tonight ?

Jarod after his vet appointment, rather unamused

Strange floof

Also cos I got bored I wrote a thing about What’s Running OH.MG

You’re all now caught up to the last month or so of my life

Jarod also has the occasional nightmare, either Samy or I have to rescue him from them every so often as he’ll cry loudly in his sleep. In nicer news, the new neighbours like to watch them live their best lives in the terrasse

Samy the shy guy, is no longer shy, he’s now really opened up, we spend time together, and he has a thing for feet. As in he seems to hate them and mine are covered in claw marks 😂

Jarod my former street cat friend seems to have got worms at some point and they came back, two taxis and 67€ later he’s on meds for the week. Great thing is he’ll eat literally anything so pills in meat don’t phase him in the slightest

Brief internet fame, getting that dopamine is harder than it was in the 90s

Changes to the System

Kind of proud of the new site, you don’t notice much (maybe except all the permalinks have changed). Swapped over the content on the Gemini server, web server is happening shortly.

I’m going to try and totally rebuild my web / gemini site today. Wish me luck, it could be a total disaster

Haven’t updated the content on my site for a month or so, but did I just add a mailing list subscribe box and some ASCII Art. Obvs yes

OK, I finally settled on the new email provider and I’m slowly moving over the domains one by one. Self hosting email has been fine, but I can’t find an equivalent filtering / relay service in Europe that is cheap and functional as the US one I’m using.

I’m also running out of disk space on the self hosted machine and I have zero motivation to install and migrate a new copy on a new machine.

The good part is that I don’t now have to run multiple accounts for my personal email and Delta.chat (kind of the reason I’m moving mostly away from Proton).

Speaking of Proton, this was all really kicked off when their new app showed up. Made the service utterly unusable on Android, on top of the lack of ability to extend beyond Visionary. You run out of space, tough shit, want more domains, lol no.

It was a bit of a hard decision as well, there were two providers I use almost equal but one with ethics more aligned to my own without a few rather important functionalities. If they come up with the goods later, I’ll probably migrate again

Today I was a cas contact for the first time, as if COVID isn’t done with us, contrary to what the French government seems to think as they desperately try to get re-elected 🤷‍♂️

Jarod and Samy have been here for a week now, and today is the first proper lazy day we’ve had. They’re at least settled in now

I’m fed up with the state of the internet now. I just blocked incoming HTTP/S + Gemini ports from my home set-up because yet again bots have taken down my servers. Fuck them and fuck the people who are actively ruining the internet (and Zuckerberg)

Hey @fitbit awesome product you have there! Love how the Ionic can apparently can start fires and the Versa 2 screen just dies 🤩

For anybody wondering the follow up to the CDG problem. No direct way to Paris, had to take a rail replacement, and it took two and a half hours to get home 🤷‍♂️

and oh.mg’s website is kind of down cos a small problem setting up the CDN

Unable to parse record: Internal error happened. because CF won’t do AXFR

Trying to move zone files from CF to elsewhere is no fun

In an effort to Europe-ify my web presence I’m trying out an EU CDN provider, it seems to work so there is a possibility I can probably move oh.mg away from CloudFlare to another EU DNS provider

Who can I petition to run this on every screen on a loop in the baggage collection area in CDG with “Bienvenue à Paris” as an overlay

I have had zero problems on the other end of each flight, always some kind of transport that is cheap and easily accessible. But come to Paris and it’s a fucking mission to make it 10km

Keeping in mind that I’ve flown from CDG pretty consistently for the past three months, and I can count on one finger the amount of times I was actually able to use the RER

I fucking can not with La RATP right now. I get back to Paris on Friday after 22h, buses are on strike and the RER B as usual isn’t running because fuck you travaux. I guess I’ll just Rentre Avec (m)Tes Pieds from CDG

So Noctilien, other than the driver deciding not to pick up people randomly and being at Gare de l’Est at the most terrifying time in the morning. It wasn’t so bad

Considering that the RATP app in general is so awful that it some how recommends the absolute worst way to get anywhere, I shouldn’t be surprised by this

Nothing more safe than ditching people at Gare du Nord at 3h du mat to wander around to find a stop that’s actually at Gare de l’Est

Having to take a series of Noctiliens to CDG in a few hours, and RATP tried to send me to a bus stop that no longer exists through their official app 🙄

Air travel, kthnxbi

Il fait beau

To Ski or Not to Ski ? That is the direction

This box is almost a dating profile.

Cat Related Entry | Redacted Identity by OM.Gay

Playing with Geographical Load Balancing | Redacted Identity by OM.Gay

Seems that the deployment worked pretty well, the response time for visitors in Australia and South Africa has tumbled to a few ms from a few hundred 🎉

It does mean I’ve had to kill of some subdomains that the ssl cert isn’t for, and contain the files within the root directory

Doing it on www.om.gay this time, if it works maybe I’ll do oh.mg too

Just got to setup the deploy script, sync the hosts, and push the new NS servers and we good

I’m using some of the things I figured out when I originally mirrored oh.mg

Because I’m curious, I’m trying geodns to offer up a server closer to the visitor. I have 4 hosting accounts, one ssl cert for the domain, and I’m going to see how this works

If anything we’ve learned in the last few years, we’re all helpless passengers in a car driven by a handful of rich psychopaths

I Should Write | Redacted Identity by OM.Gay

Particularly the PSF site is taxing me a bit, how do you remain funny when reality is a clusterfuck and it’s easy to fly a bit too close to the sun

My posts for a while are going to be erratic at best, so keep with me for the moment. I’m working on a satrical project GOUV.LLC and I need ideas. I’ve base lined it, but brain no brain good

Overnight Kaja’s condition deteriorated and she fell into a coma. The hospital was able to recussiate her, but 3 hours later it happened again. This time she wasn’t able to be brought back.

Kaja passed away at 6h this morning.

This is the photo the ASCII art is based off of, can’t remember exactly when this photo was taken but it was a long time ago

The ASCII art of her looks better in the txt file

Kaja - Her Current Situation | Redacted Identity by OM.Gay

Hopefully she’ll pull through this at home / with the vet as being alone in a strange place is not an ideal situation for her

Kaja has been getting fluids from the vet, she’s still not drinking on her own though. Random spirts of mobility, if the vet can’t get her past this then she’ll have to be hospitalised

Off the back of my previous post, I’ve put a bit more details in to this journal entry - Kaja

Kaja is in a very bad state right now, the vet did a blood test (and she put a hole in my thumb as he took blood). Diabetes on top of kidney, liver, and pancreatic failure. I’m watching her try to drink water, she’s got the whole bed room to herself now

Kaja is really unwell tonight and is showing no interest in eating, so we have a vet appointment first thing. 2022 is a cunt and it’s doing it to my cat

“Votre compte PayPal est actuellement restreint. Nous vous avons récemment demandé de prendre les mesures nécessaires sur votre compte, et nous n’avons pas reçu de réponse.”

Fun fact PayPal : If you don’t ask me for something, I can’t answer it

It’s late, I found a directory “corp” in my source files for the site, so I created a thing. Meatah Corporation

Today I learned the difference between a blocked pipe and piss poor plumbing by dropping two bottles of drain cleaner to discover the latter

I’m such an idiot. I was thinking I couldn’t make www.oh.mg work because LE on DH wasn’t going to have it without the root domain. WELL GUESS WHO HAS A 5 YEAR CERT FOR OH.MG AND WWW.OH.MG. Whattadick

OH.MG Moves | Redacted Identity by OM.Gay

It’s also nearly 1h, the streets are filled with fireworks and assholes honking. PSG did something apparently

Turns out content was the easy part, now just adding all the redirects is going to be the annoying part

I’ve commenced work, that means that gemini://om.gay is a bit broken until all the updates get applied

It also means I need to install the new version of kiln on the homebox which I’m not excited about, the version isn’t as flex as my old one on the VPS

How I vision this - redirect oh.mg to a hosted website (rather than self hosting the WWW), om.gay becomes the gemini site, gopher / BBS / etc stays where it is. Awful branding but it works.

I think tonight I’m going to do some work on moving everything around, I’m having too many issues with the OH.MG Gemini Server, content is all over the place, not much has changed since November 2020, and the clutter in the backend. Babby jeebus

My first two cities weren’t great, but who cares

I’ve downloaded Cities Skylines and I’ve been obsessed for the last few hours

Got some LED candles, set them out side and I’m happy with the results

Struggle Bussing with the OH.MG Gemini Server

Rodents are always a possibility, it is Paris after all, but she’s not been like this since we moved in about 6 months ago

She’s storming around quite upset, so not exactly sure what she’s been smelling (probably her litter I threw out today) to drive her this nuts

This would be my epic security system

We were outside for about half an hour before she decided time was up. Still not at all happy about the preventative techniques I used to keep her from invading the neighbours places

I’m sat outside with Kaja at 2h du mat because she is obsessed with being outside and trying to get to the bins

I’ve been doing some house cleaning and started to use my internal usenet server / groups with a bit more vigeur

A couple days ago one of my card details were breached somewhere and it was used to make a 230 000 VND purchase on Play store. I stopped the card so quickly, while Google is still investigating, I managed to prevent the transaction from being claimed.

The moral of this story, get a bank that gives you real time notifications of usage, that can geoblock cards to certain countries, and that you can decide the limits / if it can be used in cash machines. I caught the person testing the card with a small limit (230000VND is about 8€) before ramping it up or trying to score it elsewhere.

This is particularly important if your bank will hold a deposit for card disputes (usually per transaction), and good luck doing that if all your funds are gone three days later when it shows up on the statement.

I’ve got to the stage of being disconnected from Facebook for so long it’s started to email me to try and get me back on. No thanks, I’m good

The Spam Just Won’t Stop | Redacted Identity by OH.MG

Birdsite is going ultra anti-vax, to the point it’s trying to constantly shove me into one of their voice chats. If you think social media is harmless, it’s not. Anything for money

Stompwatch is now my new life, not because I actually care about his life, he just makes it impossible not to hear him as he enters / exits the building

I’m having a real struggle bus trying to keep up the gemini server on OH.MG, I have a feeling it might be having problems with a port sniffing bot and crashing out. I’m giving sourcehut pages a go on another domain and it seems to be alright stability wise

For reference, I’m not anal, if you have a party here and there, whatever. If you have one almost every week, you can get fucked

Understand I never thought I’d be here CALLING THE FUCKING POLICE ABOUT A NIGHTCLUB IN LY COMPLEX, but here we are see - L’histoire de Stompy McStomper | Redacted Identity by OH.MG redacted.id/86a9646d

I live less than 500 metres from a massive police station, and here we are 4 hours in to upstairs' 3rd party of the season until JE NE SAIS QUAND DU MAT FUCKIN BORDEL and none of these fuckers can be bothered to show up

Round 2 of doom scroll replacement, I searched “macintosh” on geminispace.info and got some good content out of it

Adios Facebook | Redacted Identity by OH.MG - I wrote a thing about what I do with my phone, and why doom scrolling is no longer part of it

This is the new setup, hidden some work and financial things, but trying to cut the screen time on some of the web (although I do need to keep Chrome for work)

I’m probably going to write a post to Redacted.ID for this, but tl;dr I’ve deleted a bunch of apps on my phone and moved out Chrome as the browser

I went to boot up my old Macintosh PPC, it seems to be running but these modern monitors won’t display. I could have sworn I got it to work once, but that’ll be a weekend project

Forever Distracted | Redacted Identity by OH.MG - “Drag and drop to cloud providers and have some other external service parse that, meh, fun for a couple minutes at best.”

I hate this part of the night, where I have so many bright ideas but far too tired to put them in to action

Ah the internet 💖

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The Hell of Dating Apps | Be Gay, Do Crime by OHM.GAY - “The internet sucks boys and there is no way in hell I’m downloading Tinder.”

Inexplicably twitter decided to remove my homepage address from my profile. No warning, just happened

This might be a long shot, but my cat is on a treatment this week which needs her to take a pill. Tonight she’s very much decided she’s no longer tolerating it and I’m struggling to get the thing down her throat. Anybody got tips ?

Almost back to reality | Redacted Identity by OH.MG

Well Hello | Be Gay, Do Crime by OHM.GAY

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As I’m working on reorganising everything OH.MG (I wrote about it), I’ve actually managed to really screw up the Gopher server. My concept didn’t play out so well 😅

Trying to make changes to OH.MG

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leave.eu dot lol

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Happy New 2020 Variant

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2021 found another way to be horrible at the very last moment Betty White, veteran actress who starred in The Golden Girls, dies shortly before 100th birthday

Can’t go anywhere without doing one of these, great times with Omicron 🙄

Merry Christmas to all!I tell you from heart, not like those chain messages that is only copied and paste without seeing what is being sent.They are the best youth basketball team of all Guadalajara.A hug.Merry Christmas and Happy 2005🌲 ♥

It’s Christmas or something, but here I am installing a potential home email server if I can get the server installed and to use an external drive for storage. If it works, I might switch away from the 35GB I get with ProtonMail to the 550GB I can get on my own hardware

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The guy upstairs really needs to invest in carpets, or at least not wearing shoes in the house

At minimum not slamming doors

#30DayWritingChallenge - Day 1

I have been doing many things except maybe writing on my journal

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Here we are again, a year later, same shit, and a new variant for the lolz. The only thing that’s different is the lack of curfew, well, for now. I’ve been a touch bored on the interwebs, so I re-registered some of my old domains from over 10 years ago. Such joy.

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Is there anybody out there who knows much about leafnode? I’m trying to work out how to get the filter file to work, and remove posts from googlegroups

AWS - The Trash Heap of the Internet #SpaceTwatBezos

I need to figure out how I can do this at the high firewall level, but without having to manually enter thousands of IP ranges by hand

Saturday is clean up day, so I blocked all of Bezos' IP ranges from my Web server. Trash connections from AWS is what it seems to be doing alot

I didn’t believe the yee haw attitude of quarantine protocols in Promethius and Alien Covenant. But Covid happened and it makes sense now

Speak of the devil and she’ll materialise to have a 💩

I live in an apartment that is just shy of 30m2 and yet somehow I’ve lost my cat in here. She has this ability to vanish and the intelligence to get away with a murder

Working on the BBS today, and also starting to mirror out my journal to FTP / the BBS file area

Before I go to bed (which I should have done hours ago), I’m considering a mailing list as a comment / discussion medium for redacted.id 👍👎?

The Import Begins Today - Reliving your traumatic youth through publically available blog posts 👍

If you haven’t seen Alf’s Room you should, unless your Japanese is good enough a translation in your browser might be OKish. I really like his style and what he’s created, this is something I’ve been trying to do since the MMN days

I’m Still Awake - more stories from insomnia

New Blog / Archive

I am most done with gmail

Just had to change the SPAM settings on my self-hosted mail servers to treat gmail.com emails more harshly than any other. Because of course, Google is the power house of trash on the internet

I like picking up flags of places I’ve been, but I think on this occasion I may have gone a touch overboard. It’s quite huge

Returning to Paris from the airport is always a vexing experience, and today was no different

Update : the troll was seen

Last day in 🇳🇴 obvs gonna go up a mountain to see a troll

It’s raining this weekend

Made some casual changes to OH.MG to drop the images and go full text, it’s droped the overall size of the site to about 21k so not bad. Still got to work out if I want to move the pure HTML site over to a webhost & if so how

It’s been a bit of a wild ride this week, but here I am about to go out just as it’s getting dark in Oslo 😅

Wondering why today was such a struggle, totally forgot the clocks went back an hour

I finally got back online, the cause of the outage - an ancient copper cable desperately holding my phone line together aged out and slipped out of the socket

To give some context, the internet struggle bus is real

My Freebox seems to be having a bit of a night so it’s questionable if any of the servers are responding properly until they fix it - OH.MG Status

I started the solution to my previous post, I created The Eternal Archive which is in IPFS space. Now to churn everything out to make it live

I need to revisit the project of pulling all my old LiveJournal posts and properly archiving them under OH.MG somewhere

I did not realise that the gemini server had been offline for so long. I’d normally get HetrixTools to watch it but they check every 10 minutes (current one once an hour) and I dunnae think she can handle it cap’ain

Yey I did it (and all the links are broken cos I did it all fixed like)

Trying to work out how I push OH.MG into the IPFS sphere, still barely any idea but I’m getting there

I’ve done it, well most of it, the BBS' domain has been changed to free.mg and next step is to get the static site hosting working (gotta do a ftp server) and kiln to run on a crontab

I need to plan things better, I trigger purchased a domain, set it up, changed my mind, and now I have a better idea what I want to do with it so I have to change everything now🤷‍♂️

I had to shutdown the BBS server for about 15 minutes, something has started to seize a connection with the modem again

I’ve got to do some work on the BBS over the weekend, some of the mail areas are acting up probably riddled with file locks too. I’ve also got to reset the domain as well from bbs.ec to ix.oh.mg or maybe bbs.oh.mg, not decided

Ô.LU has also been updated, not sure when that’ll go live though

Five weeks later, my ISP got their shit together and I can say that OH.MG is back !

In the sea of bad news, there is good. When I setup the BBS machine in the new flat, the modem started to respond again, if the internet comes back then dial-up service can resume

Every so often I hear about the Drop Bear, today more than once

Pour une raison inconnue @freebox ne semble pas pouvoir se connecter à mon internet. Je vis au milieu de Paris, pas au Mont Everest (@freemobile nous devons parler de votre couverture 4G) #MerciFree

I love it when @free just not tell me shit and I get a surprise 🥰 “Accusé/Réception de la commande de votre ligne validée par Free Optique La commande a été refusée” + “25/09/2021 Le ticket ouvert auprès de l’assistance technique le 08/09/2021 a été fermé.”

Free Saga : cancelled the appointment yesterday afternoon, won’t activate my ADSL line, wall of silence again

I’ve been left without Internet for three weeks, two failed installs, and one again on Friday that’ll probably be another fail 🤷‍♂️

OK, awesome, so you get to fuck around, but if I ask for something it’s rude 🙄🖕

The part that really got me is when I pushed them to at least get the ADSL switched on, I was told they didn’t want to send 2 sets of technicians

More glorious fun with Free today, they showed up to install then vanished without telling me. Still no internet

BBS Offline due to internet feckup - OH.MG

Only problem with that is sometimes the sound becomes desynchronised and it’s absolutely weird to watch

I’ve also improvised TV, streaming from a laptop, HDMI cable out, then use bluetooth to connect to my non-responsive Freebox Delta (because lolz étape 2) for sound

Still without real internet so I’m improvising

Things are much more settled now with the lights on, still running of 4G, but at least I don’t need to worry about my battery dying :D

Oof, so they came to install the fibre to find out what shit fuckery another company pulled to make it “fibre ready”. Spoiler, it’s not

No longer will I have to live by candle light, for I finally have electrcity in my house

Kaja has been pretty chill about the situation today considering, I’m not exactly pleased though Enedis forgot to give me electric 🙄

will they just fuck off already, especially Les Fucking “Patriotes”

Her tempertantrums are the part of this whole affair I was dreading the most, and I haven’t even got to the point of putting a single thing in a box (let alone her) before crazy spice comes out

Agency forgot we had the état des lieux to do so all postponed to this afternoon. Started to get some of Kaja’s things ready, and holy shit she’s fucking raging. Sat in the corner hissing and taking shots for moving her little bed to the side

The things I’ve just had to do to get internet access tonight is a fucking joke, I’m running on the most hobbled together shit fuckery of a connection, and no jokes I had to tape my phone to the ceiling to get this

Hooray, my Internet has been cut off a week early. Merci Free 👏

I don’t know why, but I really hate the word “automagically”

At some point in the next 2 weeks I need to take down OH.MG for a couple days as I physically move the servers to a new location

and of course we have Kaja, she gets enraged about me moving things and cleaning up. So I have to move her first in to an empty flat, stay with her for a while to get comfortable with the new place, then start moving things

I found, got accepted by, and will be signing for a new appartement next week. I haven’t physically moved a single thing and I’m already exhausted by this experience

I did not realise the perfect flat exists until I’ve seen it last night, now I must live there.

I was really concerned with all the plague parades around that when traffic was stopped and there was chanting, I’d have another wonderful Saturday. Instead, for once, there is a normal protest of Maliens and I’ve missed seeing them in the last few weeks

For the lolz I made Vaovao OH.MG® using a new template with the same content. It’s a fat load, but it looks ok

Of course this doesn’t mean defeat, I’m going to try and strip it down as much as possible and see what happens #yolo

My current site is about 83kb give or take because of some link backs I have to webrings and link sites (remember those)

I want to change the HTML template of OH.MG and I found a good looking one but it’s so meaty. There is about 500kb of CSS and Javascript, like ¿ por que ?

I’ve started using twtxt and it’s a bit nice. oh.mg/twtxt.txt

Lady Kaja is currently sheading because we had a short burst of warm weather, now that it’s cold again she’ll prepare another coat to explode everywhere in the next few days

I had a nap earlier, so of course I’m going to be awake all night

Pro-disease protesters and the far right seem to be hand in hand

I can’t even associate it with accidentally watching a random video, all I’ve seen for a few days is 1980s aerobic championships and cat videos

No matter how much I block the channels and tell it I’m not interested, it’ll just find something that more more worse

Yet again Google’s algorithm is trying to seed in far right videos into my YT feed. Normally, it’ll go slow, but this time it’s 0 to Hitler in 3 videos

I’m also possibly going to try and build a version of OH.MG that is able to be run on classic computers meaning dropping some of the CSS and HTTPS. Good thing I don’t use any extras like Javascript (well except for goatcounter)

Looking at flats around my area, it’s a bit of a mixed bag, some really good ones and of course your casual 10m2 box on the 8th floor, no lift, and barely enough height for a dwarf but it’s still some how over 1k€ a month

Le Walking Delta Variants

The Rules of Acquisition an OH.MG essay on doing stupid shit under the influence, now with corrected link !

Become a sex object

I tried this as well but apparently we’re uploading things in 1992 as it’s not going anywhere

Facebook seems to have totally locked me out of my own account, and I think this is the moment I was looking for to delete it. They won’t send an SMS for 2FA (which they then blocked me from for “abusive use”). Anybody ever done a GDPR deletion request with these cunts ?

To put it into context, I’ve had to do so many of these tests recently, my friends now use me as their barometer of infection. If I ever get a positive, they know they’re fucked.

Today has been nothing but COVID related, get a PCR test, get the second vaccine, get the paperwork for the above all ready for travel

I’m also not sure who submitted OH.MG to theforest.link but thank you kind person. I saw it in my refers stats, had a look and it’s an amazing site. LOOK AT IT, LOOK AT IT NOW

I’m trying to convince my WhatsApp group (I KNOW) to do a podcast like its 2011

Crypto seems to still be crashing, I’m still up, so I pulled out my funds and bought two pizzas like a baller (it was a 2-4-1 alright)

I thought I reset my #gemini server since the last down alert I got. Turns out I very much did not and it’s been down for 8 days

Just spent an hour scrubbing two cat fountains only to be thanked by her majesty with a hiss for encroaching her life on my bed

I also really need to get my photo site properly up and running

I have done so much walking this past few days I think my feet are going to fall off

I’m feeling all the Pfizer side effects today

Quite literally every time I post a link on here, these are the immediate visitors to the exact number and location

My last task for the night is pulling off a copy all these posts and uploading them to OH.MG, I know they’re a touch annoying in the timeline (sorry again) but it’s a lot like reading stuff I posted to LiveJournal back in the early 2000s, I get a kind of weird view into my own life “at the time”

For anybody remotely interested in #eurovision at this point, the Press Conference is live

Oh boy there are a bunch of Mastodon instances now synching with mine, and the whole night’s affair is being spewed out in almost real time from 21h #eurovision

That was wild #eurovision

OH THE FACES OF THE JURY’S TOP VOTES #Eurovision

This year’s voting is absolutely brutal #eurovision

THAT WAS ICE COLD, at least he got a huge round of support in the auditorium #Eurovision

LOL France fucked over Switzerland for their 12 points, I hope they take that personally next year #Eurovision

GET ON WITH IT SWEDEN #Eurovision

FAKE NEWS THE EIFFEL TOWER ONLY FLASHES ON THE HOUR #Eurovision

Malta looks pissed, probably should have hit it with 90% more French and it seems they could have hit the top 3 #eurovision

Lithuania isn’t every giving that up #eurovision

If Italy doesn’t set fire to the place on their way out, they’re not rock and roll #Eurovision

Iceland just having a great time for the lolz #Eurovision

Australia trying to to move into the vacuum created by #brexit, boss move guys, join the song contest, leave as a member of the EU #Eurovision

“You’re at the top of the score board” not for long Nikkie, the Jury has no taste #eurovision

Estonia got robbed, I loved their last year’s entry #Eurovision

And here we have why #GER should win this one #Eurovision, thank you Birdsite for delivering

Lordi was 2006, holy shit bags I’m old #eurovision

I guess it’s not #eurovision without Mans sexy pants around

Did we just forget all the people who won the country competitions for the cancelled ESC 2020 ? #Rude #Eurovision

So wait only the orchistra need face masks ? Continuity guys, continuity #Eurovision

Wasn’t that some socially distanced fun feat. Flo Rida. Off to the votes and my dirty socks #Eurovision

OK #SMR BETTER WIN JUST FOR THE WARDROBE #Eurovision

Last one, I shant be commenting on the voting malarky this year for I have laundry that needs to be done before my neighbours can start calling the police about the sound of the machine

That’s one way to get around the six on stage maximum rules on #Eurovision #SWE

This isn’t exactly my cuppa tea music wise, but #SWE is getting a vote from me this year #Eurovision

An intermission from your friends at OH.MG - A nice recap of all my #Eurovision shit posting to relive all the moments as if you paid attention and didn’t just get drunker and drunker

The greatest thing to come out of #ITA since literally food ever made in Italy #Eurovision

I don’t know why I like this, maybe the Milli Vanilli fashion, but we like #NED giving it another good go #Eurovision

Like genuinely #NOR it sounds better in Norwegian, so should have just ran with it #Eurovision

I’m out of this one, I’ve heard the #NOR song in Norewgian and I really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really don’t like the English version #Eurovision

OH YEAH IT WAS YOU #AZE #Eurovision

Didn’t somebody do a diddy about Cleopatria before in #Eurovision not long ago #AZE ?

Ironically as I pour my Pierrier in my Parisien flat, I send that message out into the void #Eurovision

Usual fayre from #FRA as expected, at least #SUI joined into the Francofest #NotByYourselfAtLeast #Eurovision

When the #ukr beat drops #Eurovision

Her stare is like “I know where you live, vote now” and it’s everything #ukr #eurovision

Imma break this app #Eurovision

This song is literally #Eurovision and #LTU read the room before they showed up to win

What else is getting old #BUL ? This song #Eurovision

“Life is just dying slowly” and other happy songs from the nation of #BUL #Eurovision

THE #FIN COMMENTATOR GETS 12 POINTS FOR THAT #Eurovision

Of course she’s going to visit her neighbours #Den 🙄 #Eurovision

AND HERE IS THE SHOW #FIN #Eurovision

Gotta be careful #fin you might have rock peaked with Lordi so some big shoes to fill #Eurovision

OK HANDS DOWN #GER I JUST SAW THAT AND I’M HERE FOR ALL OF IT #Eurovision

I don’t hate this #ger but I am considering muting it #eurovision

Oof that did not go as planned #mda #eurovision #letshopeforpittypoints

Unintentional mic drop from #mda while they’re trying to get Europe to come over and see them #Eurovision

There is a Spanish boyband that is missing a lost member somewhere #ESP #Eurovision

I felt this in 2020 and I’m feeling it again in 2021, if #Eurovision isn’t in Reykjavik next year then we need to have a discussion Europe #ISL

I mean, there are no green screens, but at least it’s not just France being French on their own now #sui #eurovision

GREEN SCREEN DANCING MAN FUCK YEAH #gre #eurovision

Watch your shadows though #MoreChromakey

Finally some fire to get us to pay attention, thanks #eurovision

Happy clappy trumpety wumpety from the #UK I guess they made a post-Brexit attempt to try and keep in Europe’s favour #Eurovision

I forgot to mention #cyp earlier, but tl;dr it’s what we’d expect if Lady Gaga was born in Nicosia #eurovision

This is about as loco loco as your aunt who has a sip of proscecco once a year at Christmas #srb #eurovision

Well thank god that’s done now #por #eurovision

Oh La Noire quão original #por #eurovision

Sorry to everybody on micro.blog and Mastodon, but Eurovision is gay christmas and this is how we do

Here we go with #MLT trying to woo the French vote #Eurovision

I know, I know Russia, but for this song I can’t slap the applause button hard enough #eurovision

If arriving at Bruxelles-Midi was an actual song #eurovision

And #esc begins

Today I’m doing some cleaning up and I realised that it’s been a while since the Guidelines page has been updated, so I fixed somethings. Might also make changes to the general design, considering some new colours, maybe dropping in my mailing list join box.

I’m having some random problems pushing out updates to some of the OH.MG mirror sites, which is of course blocking the batch job to do them all. I’m guessing the sites will eventually be synchronised, but until then weird shit be happenin'

I accidentally stayed up all night playing Fuser and I have no regrets

Oopsies, my VMs rebooted and disconnected the cloud mounts with the content. All fixed now.

Also got bored, so created G(o)URL, that would be gurl.oh.mg, a self-hosted url shortener.

Investing in OH.MG - There be no bitcoin in these parts

I am doing rather poor at this “must write at least one thing a day”. Counter resets again 😩

I bought Mario Kart 8 for entertainment, what I got is a lot of hate for every cheating Nintendo character

Je recherche des restaurants qui acceptent Swile, je complète mon panier après avoir soigneusement choisi la nourriture que je veux vraiment maintenant, OH LOL, ils n’acceptent pas Swile. Et répétez dix fois de plus, voici l’expérience @Deliveroo_FR

Storj, S3 Gateway, and Share Permissions are driving me mental

The Good Old Days of Webrings - Stop feeding the machine

Today I’m kind of doing whatever. Tomorrow I have things to do

Lady Kaja is in one of her McMoods, nothing says I love you like flinging everything off my desk

Concerningly, this was the first time I updated my twitter pic in 14 years.

Fourteen. Years. Think about that.

I updated my twitter pic cos ACNH has been the closest to going anywhere for the last year, and thus my life

Ah a day off, where all I’ve done is laundry

Go me, I moved k.cymru (and k.mba)’s content over to my beta members page concept, so 90s

Being awake is tough, especially when it’s raining out 🙄

For context, she was about to smash down on to my food. Now she’s angry at me, because you know, she was given boundaries

Kaja just jumped down to the desk, and I was screaming at her “I HAVE FOOD LADY, FOOD? I HAVE FOOD LADY”

Crap I forgot to post yesterday, at least I enjoyed my second confinement birthday because this is how we’re going to live now

Ah Amazon, Your Number One Choice for Launching Spam and Vulnerability Attacks 👍

“Because money is money, and fuck you” -Overlord Bezos

members.oh.mg is where one can find the initial deployment

I’m having a little play with hosting static sites for my bbs users, but using only gemini content, a site generator, and FTP. Not really sure how I’m going to do it, but I am.

Online shopping while bored is never the solution

I should probably make an effort to write at least one thing a day. Today, this is that thing.

I’ve got to the point where I’ve run out of content so I’ve cast my net wide to find Stockholmspolisen. I don’t even speak Swedish

I’ve created a script that should now reboot gmnisrv when it crashes out, because you know, easier than fixing the memory problems 😂

I find myself tremendously bored, milked the streaming sites for all their delicious content, Kaja won’t talk to me, I look at my website and want to change, but no idea what to change 😭

I’m having a solid think about hosting the main oh.mg Web site on Storj (Tardigrade). Bringing back the old www subdomain, it’s a lot cheaper now than my existing setup but it does mean using the CloudFlonk proxy

Kaja’s Little Emergency - 💩

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Trying to keep sane - Because confinement is not easy

I also have to continue on with the Norwegian course I paid for to get some kind of routine back in place, I got to try and keep sane until the end of next month where I can (hopefully) get on a train and go to Spain

I might just write a blog post on all of this, but let it be known that I watched a happy film to rebalance my life and finish it off with a bit of pointless boom boom action films to keep some semblance of sanity

Confinement is the gift that literally keeps on delivering a new level of crazy every so often. Meanwhile my neighbours are having yet another party that creates the conditions for more of this.

Like no jokes, I genuinely broke down crying two hours after because this dude wouldn’t go to New York

Interesting lockdown side effect, best to avoid emotional films. Because fuck me, the vivid dreams are one thing, but seriously being depressed by a romance drama all day is another entirely

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This makes more sense in my head BTW, I want to start reducing my domain pool from being all over the place to centralise it under this domain. Not only for my sanity but also to grow my content rather than let it go stale

In for round two of OH.MG weekend, start heaving over all the domains email to a new server and replace the existing email providers using oh.mg subdomains

I guess it’s time to put the Internet away and go to bed

Well that was fun, pushed an update out on all the hosts, most of the certs work, some don’t, and DNS is all over the shop. Overall oh.mg is still online. I also created a backup site on tardigrade in case I want to serve from there in the future

CloudFlonk OH.MG - For the record, I didn’t want to do it

I also really hope that I imported the zone file correctly, cos in like 48 hours we’re going to make some discoveries

I didn’t exactly want to do it, but I needed to move OH.MG over to CloudFlare for some extra functionality I couldn’t recreate on my own. For the majority of the domain isn’t using the proxy, only 1 maybe 2 subdomains at most

Having a bit of a play with tardigrade.io, not exactly figuring out the SSL cert side of things for their linkshare service, but getting there

I ordered Indian this evening, the restaurant included extra sauce because they thought they went a bit too far with the spice. If anything they didn’t go far enough 🌶️🌶️🌶️ (20/10 will order again)

The Andorian Mining Consortium runs from no-one!

Last days before more nationwide restrictions and people are out and about behaving like we need more national restrictions. I get it, this sucks, but you’re just making the problem worse

As if I didn’t learn when I moved all my domains over to OH.MG, it’s time to move all their mail over to simplelogin.io so I don’t need to check mailboxes all over the place

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Backend Changes (WWW) - I feel a bit dirty

Doing a bunch of things with domains I host content on but not under OH.MG’s file system, having to set up some funny rules to get them to now serve under an oh.mg subdomain. Not sure what I’m going to do with my micro.blog just yet though

In other site management topics, I’m working out if I should move my content off on to SDF’s Meta Array so I can get rid of this spare DreamCompute instance and use my web / gemini space over there as a mirror (kevin.sdf.org needs some love)

I’m half tempted to try hosting OH.MG on Tardigrade, not because I need to, but because it would be cool.

I’ve been staring blankly at OH.MG trying to get the creative juices flowing. What happened in the end is I watched a twitch stream and fell asleep

Seriously @rackspace, as Spamhaus.org says “Tip: Do not put your FBL or abuse@ account behind content-based spam filters. What’s the point of filtering away the evidence you need to clean up your network?”

Receives junk email that came from @rackspace ’s network, forward email, get a bounce back 🙄 Your message was not delivered to one or more recipients.

Recipient(s): abuse@rackspace.com Error: rejected by spam filter

I’ve watched the last episode of Drag Race, so I’m permitted to go back on Twitter again

I don’t know what I did, but whatever it was it’s fucked up the Facebook algorithm on me. I just get the same stale posts in my feed all the time, I’m not complaining, it’s the greatest thing ever. Facebook is high level garbage, and this is giving me the reason to ghost it

Doing a bit of house keeping and moving my Nimbus Notes instance from notes.mmn.on.ca to notes.oh.mg. I’m also trying to work out how I’m going to merge whatever else I intend on doing over to the oh.mg domain, mainly including my plume instance

Well I learned something rather interesting today, if my servers can’t contact their Object buckets, it really crashes in a spectacular fashion. Might pump up the cache time out to something rather high

Rachety Rachet - Fuck knows why I went for this title

I love how @FactoryandCo charges 24€ for a cremated creature slab (this couldn’t have been a cow in its existence), a bit of milk, and some cheeseless cheese fries and willingly sends that out the door as a job well done. It was so vile the only the bin could handle it.

Nothing more exciting than Google Pay freaking out and selecting random cards when you tap (ignoring the actual card you chose) to that one bank card you no longer hold physically that has money behind it 🙄

I’m really loving the @invizbox 2 and InvizBox Go with @ProtonVPN, between the InvizBox block list and Proton’s Netshield the amount of trackers and ads blocked is insane. The speed as well is exceptional, using an app on my computer always lagged but I can stream no problems 🙌

Hey @fedex thanks for making me wait at home all day because “you didn’t have my door code”, apparently in 2021 there is no possible way to contact anybody by telephone, if only there was some kind of magical way to call using a small handheld device when not at a phonebox 🤷‍♂️

I’m probably more vexed by this considering I know how it’s going to go, the driver is going to end their shift put some bullshit about me not being home, while being nowhere near the arrondissement I live in, and then I have to waste another day and slog up to their depot.

The definition of end of day is questionable at best, but clearly 18h was not only the promised time but it’s clearly the end of the day for some people #rude

Well lol, if you can’t make it on time, just change the goal posts : Scheduled delivery: Monday, January 18, 2021 by end of day

Scheduled delivery: Monday, January 18, 2021 by 18:00

Stayed in all day, curfew is about to start, and I’m somewhat vexed that the delivery has still not bothered to show up while I’ve been sat in my flat all day.

I think we can also confirm that yet again my sleeping patterns are back to April 2020 style “time doth not matter”

I also spent about an hour talking myself out of buying a new domain, so at least there is progress in my 2h du mat compulsive purchases. Except that time I bought a load of gopher themed domains, hem, last night at the same time

The lj.gl server needed to reboot for some updates, plus it was going slow as shit so I figured two problems solved here

Fitbit support I find is a bit “have you tried contacting somebody else about a problem that stems from our buggy product?”, practically the Uber way of customer care, wear them down until they give up

Lolz, remembering that time I created acme.lu

When I changed Freeboxes I lost some of my file areas, but thanks to the Internet Archive I was able to recover the Commodore Free mirror. So check it out !

Because I’m a gluton for punishment, I’ve setup a Plume instance on lj.gl

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Also, before you ask she’s upset that I wouldn’t let her break in to the appartments next to ours

Drinking with your cat in 2020 is not ideal, when you get a bit down about having no social contact, the response you really don’t need is a hiss and a sharp swat 😅

An official statement from OH.MG

And to be brutal, I’m kind of glad Kent smells of piss right now, it’s the least they deserve

Incidentally, already holding citizenship with a commonwealth country still gets you better access than these blue passports they produce in Poland by a Dutch company. Because something about taking their whatevers back and freedrrms

I’m not concerned about getting kicked out, but I do have three options available, each one equally as expensive and time consuming. Not one of them includes going anywhere near the UK, and quite frankly I’ll probably renounce my UK citizenship because of this farce if I go via option nationality

Well the clown “got Brexit did” and now it’s time to start figuring out what happens next, and freeing up some / a fuck tonne of cash to stabilise my legal standing in this country. All this for soverentee they already had 🤷‍♂️

I’ve somehow gone from a night owl to an early bird, and I’m very confused by this turn of events

I’ve also been playing with monitisation with Coil, if I can figure out how to hide my BBS’s web front end behind a Coil paywall I would consider opening it back up to the outside web. The amount of money raked in is still pretty small, but it would limit the server to genuine users if anything. Plus it helps a little towards the management of the web server, which is the most time intensive part of running a BBS

In my journey of self hosted email, I kind of forgot that I had wildduck.email running on one of my machines. I went in changed some settings and it seems to be working, I’m not thinking of using it as a prod server though. It’s good, but it’s not a stable release and administering it is a bit hardcore 😅

Live streaming my cat ignoring me, the future is today

In related news, trying to decipher Irish official documents from 1926 is a rather interesting affair. These fuckers wrote so stylish it’s totally unreadable, there was no interest in future proofing back in the day

My job requires me to keep up with the COVID situation in the UK, and Holy moley, am I glad I don’t live there. It’s just randomly made up moment by moment by Bojo’s crew.

In other news, I’m about to spend my rent on becoming Irish because of that other shit show BoJo is responsible for

I totes need to work on my BBS having invested a lot of time with postfix getting email running

RIP Self Hosted Mail Server, you dead now babz x

Email Dramas - a tale of a crashing server in slow motion

There is a high probability I give up on self-hosted email.

Did a little distributed hosting of the oh.mg site like I did back in the day with ec.je. This time I have little flag icons, look at me

Redoin' the BBS Login Screen - Awful ANSI screen ahoy

Rebootsy Doodles - 404 This Site is Not Mounted

Lolz both my VMs rebooted this morning, somewhat amusing because I forgot to add the mount to DreamObjects to the boot, so my website was 404 until I reconnected it all up

The File Area / FTP is b0rk3d - The joys of technology #bbs #bbsing #files

I’m starting to get the lockdown vivid dreams again, but since my life is ACNH, YouTube videos, and Netflix they’re really weird. When I say weird, I mean one of them I was having a fling with John Oliver as it was the last video I watched that night 🙃

I feel like I should do more

Looks like I’ve found a shit load of fake Insta accounts that used my domains prior to me registering them, any ideas what to do with these ? How can I tell ? What chaos can be caused ?

Thank Baby Jésus a Christmas miracle, did some reinstalls and reboots and it’s backup like new

These are the things I do not need in my life today

Ugh, docker went nuts, Ubuntu stopped having it, and I’m pretty sure my self hosted mail server is kaput

Will it last in production? Fuck knows! But you don’t learn by wondering 😅

Yay, I did it, oh.mg is serving from it’s individual self hosted servers and using content hosted on DreamObjects on all three protocols!

Cos I want to do this all on the root domain, and not have to create a bunch of subdomains

The great issue crops up with IPv6 since gopher, gemini, and Web will have their own unique IP addresses so that’ll be an interesting game

It’s also worth mentioning that I’m looking at this to try and keep four different physical servers synchronised properly, one of them completely outside my network.

I’m also considering my options to self-host OH.MG on all three protocols, gopher, gemini, and ze web. I think I can do that using my existing infrastructure, but the only problem is opening up HTTP to the outside world. Cos asshole bots.

I’m loving this gemini / html generator, it’s making my life more easy and pushing out a very might weight version of the website I want. It would be nice to be able to automatically generate the content for a gopher server, but I don’t think that’s doable as of yet Journal Post

Sweet baby jésus, I have far too many domains, I realise how many now that I have to redirect them all to oh.mg

I’m so shocked right now, I bought 6 kinder eggs, and when I turned my back somebody broke in to my appartment and stole them. Really ! The crime here is weirdly specific, because there is literally no way I ate them all at once ! Totally impossible !

The perfect domain name doesn’t exi…

oh.mg

And while I was there I started to sync the content of my gopher and two gemini servers over to DreamObject in case I screw something up again in the future. It was pure luck I had copied the yes stuff to GitHub earlier

Sweet baby jésus, well I finally did it correctly. My DreamCompute Instance has more than enough space now, I seperated the /home directory to an external volume. Job done all good just waiting for yes.ci new IP addresses to propagate on the interwebs

Ugh, I screwed up the DreamCompute Instance for the new Gemini server. So I had to delete it and restart the process #fml

Speaking of still being awake, the fat one was slinking on the bed frame until she misstep. Dropping claws first right in to what I assume was a kidney

I’m also fully aware it’s 3h30 du mat, but it’s 2020 and time doesn’t matter any more

The one over at DreamCompute isn’t meant to replace my home one though, I’m running a separate project on it and seeing how it survives in production

I’ve started another Gemini server on a DreamCompute instance. I have a feeling my stability issues are down to my home based VM not exactly enjoying life

Tikka Masala was a success, but it needed some fresh chilli. Learned for next time

If any of my neighbours stuck around they’d be vexed

Just downloaded a video game that recreates the festival experience we won’t be able to have until 2029

I’ve spent the past week or so watching Earth Final Conflict and you can certainly tell who was 1990s hot and probably not so 2020 hot.

And the hair, oh my 90s hair.

I’m going to work on that tonight so it’s probably going to have some weird knock on effects on email for a bit to the board

I’ve finally found out how to get mailcow to properly relay mail to bbs.ec without causing all kinds of havok. Next step is figure out how IP filtering works on Freebox and we’re there!

I’m sat here watching a scifi series from the 90s and remembering the good old days when the internet was creative and not consumptive. Seeing as I’m going back to being technically funemployed next week, I should probably invest some time on being creative and not doom scrolling

Has anybody out in the vast cyberspace had any dealings with finding a webhost that can handle an IDN TLD ? The standard Google has not helped much. For reference the name is 雾.香港 😅

I play games to escape reality, like I can get exploited in real life for less

Everytime I play Animal Crossing I learn to hate that capitalist trash panda Tom Nook and his shitty family even more

That was a surprisingly un-2020 turn of events… Not going to complain though #YoureFired

Speaking of not being able to think Biden campaign cancels Texas event after Trump supporters surround bus on interstate

I’m working on a thing but my brains aren’t braining hard enough to make thinks to put up there #hashtagsadface

Obviously one of my neighbours is throwing a lockdown house party

Urgence sanitaire and urgence attentat at the same time, 2020 the year that needs to slow the fuck down

Tua madre fa una pizza terribile and other interesting things about your mum

State Required Bedtime - I get it, we’re all done with COVID-19

Moved the BBS website to gemini with some HTTP2Gemini voodoo, now mirroring the content over on the gopher server at gopher.is

I’m in that I want to do things, but I’m far too tired to get them done stage. And it is annoying

I caved and bought a new TV to replace my long lived one that passed away recently

It’s 45 minutes to state required bed time and I’m far enough from my house to start to panic about the speed of this bus

Not married but willing to be!

Long Live ON.GY - a tale of blowing cash for nostalgia

Update : no sirens, Macron / Hildago disappoint again

oh and if 2020 wasn’t too much already, terrorism is coming back.

Also today is not my day, left late for lunch, métro was stuck two stations away making me ultra late, I then sprayed coca zéro all over my bed which is now drip drying outside in the cold, and said laundry dripped on my cigarette ruinning my moment

Curfew starts in 38 minutes and I will be thoroughly disappointed if the government don’t indicate it using the sirens 😂

My gemini server decided to crash out today, but it’s back online. Huzzah

If anybody is interested in starting a random meme group (I have loads) on delta.chat with me, ping me a message kc@cd.ax

Literally the best part of 2020 is ordering the Ben Cohen 2021 calendar

Back in BCN The glorious, but short return to BCN

Very much living the mañana experience today, woke up rather early, just chilled a bit, then slowly doing everything I meant to do as needed, might actually do some mañana instead

I thought Hydroxychloroquine was the miracle cure ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Genuinely considering whether or not I call a DKIM sector yomommaisagoblin

Little Miss Kaja is storming about on the bed for whatever reason, meanwhile I’ve located some of the old images I used to do weekly back in the day for my personal site (circa 2001)

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Watching trashy scifi from the 90s and very early 2000s is my new life

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Fat cat is snoring her brains out on the pillow next to me, for something so small she’s loud

Moving LJ.GL a little story about moving a hosting account and the new choice of with (.gl) or without (.co.za) CloudFlare

Things I’m watching many years too late, TekWar

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk, and yes I had the pleasure of wasting my time with one of these fools this evening 🤣

All kinds of fraud are evil, but this type is pretty violent, thankfully most of these scammers are idiots. So don’t release personal info until you’ve met, and think with your brain not your heart until you’ve met and genuinely know the person you’re talking to

For anybody in the LGBTQ+ category, scammers aren’t really up to speed on gay sex, so if your enthusiastic partner to be has fuck all idea how it works, then they’re probably dodge

There are of course many other signs, some that I can share and some that, well, working in AML and Fraud will teach you but I won’t cos that would be insane. But if your chat is sounding a lot like security questions, it’s time to pull out

Top tip for dating scammers : I know French isn’t easy, but try not to forget your sex. Big difference between homme and femme, there is of course the conjugaison clues that’ll sell you out. However, the above is a guarantee 😂

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I’ve done a thing for anybody who wants to self host a gopher / gemini / BBS server but doesn’t want to / can’t register a domain. Check tb.je

A Billion Stairs Climbed a tale of climbing stairs in a château

You really see the difference that confinement and remote work makes on your body when you’re outside for more than 45 minutes 😅

There were many stairs, but when admission is 11€50, you do them all

The little lady is refusing to come in and it’s not exactly warm out

Many things to do

Speaking of random things, having seen a film review on the socials, it reminded me how much of a pain in the ass it is to find the actual film here. You see the version for France will usually carry a completely different English name than the original title 🤷

2020 has been a ball of shit, but if one good thing has come out of it, it’s the fact that SNCF are up to some serious desperate discounts which I’m exploiting until travel is banned again in 2020 v2

Been staring at screens all day trying to muster up a plan to update something. I did not, I did however, watch a bunch of trash films off the streaming services

Fixing Up Errythang - Doing a bit of work on the web for the lelz

New Year, New Journal a blog post on the new version of my blog, run on Logarion

Currently reworking my file areas on the BBS and mirroring them to the Web and Gopher sites. Never have I used symlinks in such fashion

The best part of the weekend, every television station is full of Policiers / Pompiers / n’import qui en Action type programmes. Do I care about illegal ice cream sales in Agde ? Of course not, but they do make it exciting to watch

Part 2 of this is working out how I can get cloudflare or PHP to redirect visitors to the closest geographical server

I made a few changes to my website ec.je by adding a couple of extra mirrors (might as well use all that hosting space in various places), brought back the old school look, and linked a bit more on the Logarion archive rather than making duplicate pages

Anybody else out there using delta.chat?

I have no idea what happened here, but my YouTube feed went from comedic video game plays and low level standup comedy to full on Fox News grade homophobic-racist-trash. Guess another app to delete then.

I’m currently waiting to get my haircut, which usually gives me anxiety at the best of times. Sitting perfectly still, sweating if I get a bad cut but obvs too British to say something, etc is already not my jam. But mid-pandemic, this is a new level

Currently avoiding my adult responsibilities by merging all my Logarion archives in to one big archive

I call this one Shitty Kitty Cam

The great thing about living in Europe, is you can do stupid shit like last minute booking a trip to Bruxelles because why the fuck not

#mbaug Blast from the past, Bristol 2012

This #mbaug is perfect for little madame, it’s her favourite looking direction 🐦

I finally booked a holiday, going to try my hand at the classic camping and traverse the country in a Nissan LEAF.

What a surprise Uber didn’t delete any of my account details, still can’t contact their DPO, and had to send it to CNIL. If only there was some kind of regulation for this 🤷‍♂️

Some of the problems with running a home server is things can go down. My mail server dropped off the face of the earth as Lady Furry McBitch tore out the ethernet cable 😅

Window latch problem solved today, I also cleaned out what could be another cat entirely out of the clim so it will now breathe better and chill like it’s got Netflix. I had to chisel out 60 years of paint from the window lock and it’s screws. I’m sure I have lead poisoning ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I’m determined if there is a confinement v2, I shall indeed shave my head. Quarantine hair is annoying me highly

Turns out spag bol was indeed in my future

Tonight’s tv / film viewing has been somewhere between that looks nice and meh. Deciding on whether or not spaghetti bolonaise is in my future.

I should really be doing real world things, but here I find myself wrapped up in the digital world and watching the concequences of premarital sex

I have found my job for tomorrow, clean the aircon unit, try to fix the window latch, crawl out of my human nest and be social. Maybe.

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Changed the server gopher.is lives on, Geomyidae is going in to hibernation soon. Content obvs not moved, but in the process of getting a gemini server running there too.

Why am I now only finding out about neocities.org?

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I’m doing some work on various things today, re-organising which mail server does what, dropped a www subdomain on gopher.is, maybe adding some more newsgroups, we’ll see…

The one day I sleep in, everything goes :poopfire: 😅

In 2020 to get a single viagra spam in the slew of Coronaspam reminds me of the good old days

A sneak peak of the old server farm : Top : mailcow Middle : WildDuck Bottom : BBS

Trying out mailcow.email on an older server, it’s got some good points but not as easy to pgp encrypt all incoming emails like wildduck.email

Because my email set-up is somewhat complex, the renaming is now done :

• Outbound MTA rly-xa02.mx.mmn.lgbt (US)
• Network Relay airxa03.mail.mmn.lgbt (FR)
• In House Mail Server core-rpx19.mail.mmn.lgbt (FR)
• BBS Machine core-mec03.mmn.lgbt (FR)

I’ve also renamed all my internal machines under the mmn.lgbt domain, and in hindsight I should have probably moved my micro.blog there too (here’s to hoping nobody is requesting the SSL cert for mmn.name right now - sorry !)

Of course the image didn’t quite upload…

It’s pride week, so I re-registered mmn.lgbt and decided to rename the computer the BBS is hosted on. Forever in your email headers :

Received: from core-mec03.mmn.lgbt (core-mec03.mmn.lgbt [192.168.0.20])

Blast from the past, Durand’s CommunityWare, one of the things I used in the 90s for a rather OK online community

wcOnline bonked out last night, so just restarted the BBS. Should be A-OK now.

Got a leafnode server setup for the BBS, so it can collect it’s usual fayre and to try and link it to a public facing NNTP server. Not really sure what I’m going to do here, but the idea is to have a webboard of kinds.

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Just pushing a small change out to mmn.on.ca, so locked the VM entirely between regenerating everything and uploading until the end of time

So of course Uber still refuses to refund the full amount of the missing item and thanks me for my feedback.

Uber just received 1 data deletion request by DM and Email, plus I initiated a charge back with my bank.

Meanwhile Kaja just be chillin'

Had a little poke around the gopher server, trying to map out how I want to make it better since I’ve not done too many updates. Still have the BBS newsletter to write as well, but my brain she dead.

So Ubereats decided that providing an unacceptable service is fine, and ripping me off for a missing item was OK. This is a story of how to lose a customer over 99 cents and having to deal with a GDPR deletion request, and of course the charge back I’m about to lodge 👍

My birthday it is not, like not even close, and @fitbit has been spamming me in English and in French about some fathers day offer, discounted delivery or something, rather obnoxious. It really is just like a crazy ex filling your mailbox with REMEMBER I’M HERE.

No wait, postfix is killing itself now 🙄

I’m having a battle of wills with CipherMail, but at least it’s running

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Sometimes the small things in life do the greatest changes

HandleLidSwitch=ignore

The new mail server seems to be doing the job, stable, and with a little tinkering, is relaying properly via my ISP’s SMTP relays without breaking DKIM

Been trying my hand at installing WildDuck.email server again, seeing as I got a spare server now. Have it half working right now, no inbound smtp for some reason. Like the concept, hate the docs

Install Ubuntu server, encrypt disk because we’re good people, do security updates, all done! Reboot, can’t unlock disk because Ubuntu server can’t figure out the @ symbol on a French keyboard. Cry.

Importing my entire WP instance to Hugo was both a good and bad move. Good because everything is static, bad because some of the posts are now empty even though the MD file has content, and finally because using ./deploy takes forever but this might be the VM limitations

The whole computer noped out earlier on VNC as well, so I had to bring up backup interface TV 😅

The BBS is acting up again, so imma have to go reboot that

Just woke up, perusing the old interwebs (actually connected to BBOARD on SDF) and I found this Build Your Own Dial-Up ISP - Now With Modem Pool!

It’s friday and you all know what that means ! It’s time for the 48 hour Antarctic Winter Film Fest 2015

I’m glad I did a pull of all my posts from LJ over to a Hugo friendly one. I’m presently uploading them all to mmn.on.ca, and hoping that micro.blog doesn’t go on a 8000 post rampage when I switch back on crossposting 😅

I just did a big old change to mmn.on.ca, I’ve moved the hosting to my main website (thnx mmn.vg for your help) and my micro.blog is now at micro.mmn.on.ca. In theory I got all the redirects alright. No promises

Did not notice all the work I was doing on mmn.vg was getting reposted here. I moved in a lot of spare domains to that site and two of them I already had feeds setup on for the previous things that were there. Oopsies

She’s hunting a bird in the tree, hiding behind the cat grass

In the spirit of doing things : Periodic Update - June Edition can also be found via gopher://gopher.is/0/text/announcement.md

In other news, this is a photo of the little lady I took last night. Adorbs.

This is the problem with doing nice things on the internet, it’s generally full of jerks who want to fuck yo shit up.

Some jackass got ml.gy flagged for malware and only two subdomains were ever flagged for SPAM by FreeDNS. Thanks Google, thanks douchebag SPAM jerks 👍 now just waiting for the site to be reviewed

Reminding me of things to do, I really need to push some stuff on to gopher.is as well. Also, seeing as Madame Rona has settled down, go have a little walk tomorrow

The internet is quite intense in 2020 and I’ve got to do life things today. Already got the cat litter done, shopping next, laundry to come, and after I think working on the BBS

I’ve surfaced from a long week in a Jira bubble, it’s wonderful, yet such an arse ache to get it rolling 😅

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Ugh can’t sleep, so many ideas. I’m stepping up my game here, the official greeting to the ACME phone number (it’s real, the people who answer are real, and any name you see on the site you can ask for - try Fletcher Johnstone) MP3

I wish to prove my own point here, as the story was in fact written by Niklas and any coincidental space without a suit related incidents involving a Nikolas are purely hearsay

Writing fictional corporate propaganda whilst tired was a lot more difficult than I expected. I fear Nikolas might accidently find himself out an airlock. Pesky technical issues and all that Plutonian Parliamentary debate degrades into chaos

Just when you thought I was done writing garbage on the internet, boum, I present The ACME Omnipresent Interstellar Corporate Conglomeration

I got bored, so I created a fake multinational enterprise. I’m proud of my work here acme.lu

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All her things outside today so she can enjoy the weather

Oh lol the relay mx server hasn’t been responding for some time now. Good thing bbs.ec hasn’t sent an email out for a while 😅

Done a bit of a change to the bbs.ec site (in fairness also ec.je) to more align with hating WordPress and being less bulky. It’s now tilde’d #301Redirect and compiled with logarion

Her Majesty is having a nice little afternoon

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Ugh, Ubuntu Disco is very dead and now I can’t upgrade my gopher server at all 😐

Me : Make one small error on a URL in config.toml. Hugo for the 8th time in the last hour :

How did I not know this was happening ?!